On 07/24/2017 04:28 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> then its use of %s in either of those functions constitutes a _bug_ > > Oh really? Is that why "%s" was added to Cygwin's strftime() lately?
Your mailer is breaking up threads, which is making it very annoying to follow where your replies are landing. strftime() has been formatting %s since Oct 2015 (if you can call that "lately"). In fact, you made me check git history: it was not me that added it (like I thought, so I must have added it in gnulib instead); but Brian - in fact, the same Brian who is now working on adding %s to strptime(). The point remains: if you want your program to be portable, you should not use %s. But if your program is okay with demanding a GNU/Linux environment rather than sticking to portable code, then Cygwin still tries to cater to that by providing as many GNU/Linux extensions as possible, and pointing out where we fall short is appreciated. But still, someone has to code it, this is a volunteer effort, and we tend to scratch our own itches. The fact that strptime() lagged strftime() by nearly 2 years in adding %s support is par for the course. It's not worth complaining about, and if you want faster action, then submit patches yourself instead of asking others to do it for you. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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