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From: "Bill C. Riemers" <docbill@freeshell.org>
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Subject: Re: Include Problem
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:07:00 -0500
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> It doesn't.  Cygwin != Linux.
>
> Also, AFAIK, if a Linux application is directly including linux/*, it is
> broken.

Not necessarily.  Not every application is designed to work across different
platforms.  Sometimes a programmer may choice to sacrifice portability for
some other advantage.  In fact in some cases they may include system include
files like thos in "linux/*" just prevent people from compiling on an
unsupported platform.

                                        Bill



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