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Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has


Am 24.07.2017 um 04:09 schrieb Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]:

rather it's a question about portability of code that
uses %s for both functions and expects it to work unchanged in the
Cygwin environment.

And the answer to that question is: such code _is_not_portable_, and therefore that expectation is wrong.

If that code claims to be portable, then its use of %s in either of those functions constitutes a _bug_.

In the old days there was a well-known fallacy known by the slogan "all the world's a VAX." Nowadays it appears to have been replaced by an equally wide-spread, and equally incorrect belief that all the world is Linux. Well, it's not. Not even the whole Un*x world is Linux.

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