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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.5.0-0.8


On Mar 19 23:49, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2016-03-19 05:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Glibc uses __USE_MISC to guard the inclusion of sys/select.h, newlib's
> >header uses __BSD_VISIBLE which is almost the same.  But we have the
> >equivalent __MISC_VISIBLE as well.  Do you want to change that, Yaakov?
> 
> If you want, but with the implementation of _DEFAULT_SOURCE (since glibc
> 2.20), there is no functional difference between BSD, SVID, and MISC; it's
> mostly historical and documentative at this point.

It might be helpful to align this with glibc, even if it's just to
keep the people from puzzeling over the difference.


Corinna

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