Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1996/09/16/04:45:21
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Is there anything else we should do before
> trying to release DJGPP V2.01?
Is it beta release or a final one? If it's beta, then I'd ask to include
the latest changes to `system' and `dosexec' (see my other mail). Here
are a few more things in the library that I think should be taken care of
(it might be done during the beta phase, although I'd suggest doing them
before a beta release):
- POSIX_ARGS_MAX definition
- Additional defines for <sys/config.h> (I will post them today)
- Inconsistency between `stat' and `fstat' concerning time fields
on Windows 95 (the fields that aren't supported on MSDOS are handled
correctly by `stat', courtesy of Charles, but `fstat' doesn't use the
Windows 95 calls that allow to get the same info by the file handle). It
is intolerable IMHO for `stat' and `fstat' to disagree on the info they
return for a given file: it will cause all kinds of subtle bugs in ports
of Unix programs.
There are numerous things regarding the ports of utilities (most of them
wait for me, I know :-(), but that can be finished during the beta phase.
It is still too early for the final release, IMHO.
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