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Re: Define _POSIX_SOURCE in cygwin's features.h?


On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:53:50PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:22:11PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:08:32PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>>But a portable program should _not_ assume that #defining _GNU_SOURCE
>>>>implies that _POSIX_SOURCE.  If a program not only needs posix stuff
>>>>but also some GNU extras, it should #define _GNU_SOURCE _and_
>>>>_POSIX_SOURCE itself.
>>>
>>>I don't care about portable programs.  I'm interested in hearing if
>>>this will fix problems with programs which build without problem on
>>>linux.
>>
>>But it seems that it only builds "without problem" on Linux by chance,
>>not by design.
>
>That is by no means clear but even if that was the case, I don't care.
>
>>I don't see why we should try and fix this in cygwin.
>>
>>Consider how many times people come here and say "My app works fine on
>>Linux, how come it just dies with a SEGV on cygwin" and someone points
>>out the trivially obvious buffer overrun and we have to explain how it
>>only ever worked on Linux by luck because of differences in the
>>environment and the way the stack is set up.
>
>If I could easily make cygwin behave exactly the same way so that a
>buffer overrun that worked on linux went undetected on cygwin, too, I'd
>do that?  If there was some linker option to ensure that, I'd use it.

Editing glitch above.  Please change '?' to '.'.

cgf

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