"Charles D. Russell" wrote: > > You don't. Or you use something other than Cygwin. > > Not as drastic as it sounds. Look at the compiler flag -mno-cygwin. > Very handy if you occasionally want to distribute executables without > cygwin1.dll.
That would fall under "use something other than Cygwin" because you are not using Cygwin any more in that case, you are using MinGW. This means you can't use any POSIX emulated functions. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/