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Re: Add xdr support
On Mar 2 10:32, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> > The attached patch(es) add XDR support to cygwin. eXternal Data
>
> Now that newlib has accepted the XDR patches, the following simply
> exports those symbols. It also ensures that the (rare) xdr error
> messages are handled by cygwin as they are in glibc: print them to
> stderr (unlike the previous patch, which printed them to cygwin's debug
> strace).
>
> I know we're in the run-up to 1.7.2, so it may be prudent to delay these
> changes until after that, which is fine by me.
These functions don't interfere with existing functionality at all,
so I don't see a reason to keep them out of 1.7.2...
> 2010-03-02 Charles Wilson <...>
>
> Add XDR support.
> * cygwin.din: Export xdr functions.
> * include/cygwin/version.h: Bump version.
> * cygxdr.cc: New.
> * cygxdr.h: New.
> * dcrt0.cc (dll_crt0_1): Print the (rare) xdr-related
> error messages to stderr.
> * Makefile.in: Add cygxdr.
...and I would *love* to apply the patches, but unfortunately there's a
serious, VERY serious problem with this patch.
The patch is missing the related changes to cygwin/posix.sgml and
doc/new-features.sgml.
Would you mind to send a second patch for the documentation?
Thanks,
Corinna
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