"I'm not mad, I'm disappointed." --The Scientist
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, 12:00 PM Paul Eggert via tz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2025-10-24 04:25, Manuela Friedrich wrote:
> > zic.c(104): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'creat_perms'
>
> Thanks again. I see that your platform has sys/stat.h but it does not
> define mode_t as per POSIX. Let's try the attached proposed patch, which
> I installed in the development repo. This simplifies the code a bit.
>
> The idea is that we know how gid_t, mode_t and uid_t work on
> MS-Windows-like platforms that have <direct.h>: the types are unsigned
> short so let's just use that as a convenience (though it puzzles me why
> Microsoft doesn't do that for us). On other non-POSIX platforms we can
> continue to ask the builder to use something like -Dmode_t=int. (This
> would be needed if a mad scientist built tzcode on UNIX System III or
> earlier!)
