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Re: Deprecating ntea
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:30:18PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb 27 09:03, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Off the top of my head things I'd like to fix would be:
>>
>> signal mask
>> termios structure
>
>Wouldn't that be easily coverable by using the usual method of
>recognizing the application build?
That's how they are handled now. I'd like to get rid of runtime checks.
>I did that for the new struct ifreq lately, for instance. Or, as in
>case of the 32->64 bit transition, what about creating new entry points
>for new applications (sigaction vs. sigaction64)?
The point of a cygwin2 would be to eliminate workarounds.
>> environ passing
>> user_data passing from program to cygwin
>
>These two I don't quite understand. Wouldn't the method be just a
>change under the hood, invisible to the applications?
No. There is code in the built-in stub which does stupid things with
the environment which, I assume, harkens back to when Steve Chamberlain
was trying to figure out Windows.
cgf