On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:53:02PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:49:04PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> It appears getsubopt is in newlib, and so present in Cygwin's >>> <sys/unistd.h>, but not exported from cygwin1.dll >>> >>> One of Cygwin's core developers will need to tell us whether this is >>> accidental or on purpose. > >--meanmeanmean >Content-Language: cgf_mean > >> Oh, it's on purpose. Believe me. Caused someone some discomfort? >> Then our evil plan is succeeding. Core developers! Raise your >> glasses and repeat after me "We are the core developers and we are >> MEAN!" >> >> It's a well know fact that we put functions in unistd.h which are not >> actually exported by cygwin just to tantalize and confuse people. >> What other earthly reason would we have for dangling this tempting >> fruit in front of people, if not to frustrate them? >> >> Bwahahaha. >--meanmeanmean > >Attempting translation: cgf_mean -> en_gb ... >Translation not possible! >Gist comprehended... > >Will you make the necessary adjustments to cygwin.din/version.h, or should I >submit a patch?
I don't think it is that simple. Cygwin doesn't use the getopt that comes with newlib. Is there supposed to be any correspondence between the getopt version and the getsubopt version? Take a look at cygwin/winsup/lib/getopt.c . Uh, I mean. Why should I care? Suffer! cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
