Re: Problem editing file

[Ben Pfaff]

Michel Boaventura <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm part of the dev-mingw list. If you don't mind, I can forward your
> message to they. I already open a threat about it.

A "thread", I hope.  Yes, please forward my email, that's fine.

> But my question is: if POSIX tells one thing, and Microsoft tells
> another, mingw should use what implementation?

I think that the goal of Mingw is to make it easy to port GNU
software to Windows.  If I am correct about that goal, then Mingw
should use the POSIX definition, because that definition makes it
easier to port GNU software to Windows than if Mingw used
Microsoft's definition.
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Ben Pfaff 
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