Reuben Thomas wrote: > > In the end I tried something a bit different, which was to reduce the > > > number of gnulib modules I was using, as for the code I'm writing it > > > seemed > > > reasonable to assume C99 and POSIX.1-2008. > > > > ?? That makes no sense to me. Either you want to assume POSIX, or you want > > to support native Windows. You can't do both at the same time. > > > > I am supporting MSYS, mingw32 and mingw64; all of those work fine if I > assume POSIX.
It may be that your program and its test suite exercises only the most common cases of the POSIX APIs; then you may get the impression that "it works fine". We have documented hundreds of deficiencies of mingw [1] w.r.t. the POSIX standard. MSYS is surely worse, not better, than mingw. I recommend to use the respective modules, for those POSIX APIs that you use. Bruno [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html
