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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:07:49 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> Hmm.  Some OS's have a "personality" model.  We could actually adopt
> something like that.  New code could default to the "linux personality"
> while older code could stil use the default "cygwin hodge-podge personality".
> This might not be feasible with some things like timezone, etc.

That could be managed by the header file.

	extern time_t _timezone __declspec(dllimport);

	#if defined (LINUX_PERSONALITY)
	#define timezone _timezone
	#elif defined (HODGE_PODGE_PERSONALITY)
	char *_EXFUN(timezone, (void));
	#endif

Corinna

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