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Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it,


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftruncate: mark module as obsolete; even MinGW provides it, now
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:04:38 +0200
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Hi Jim,

> I'm marking ftruncate as obsolete, prior to removing it altogether.
> I am removing the few uses from coreutils, too.
> It's been in mingw for quite a while:
> 
>     $ cvs log mingwex/ftruncate.c

Indeed. But since mingw has it but MSVC doesn't, this raises the question:
how important is the MSVC porting platform (use Microsoft's compiler and
include files [proprietary but downloadable at zero cost from Microsoft's
web site], with possibly a wrapper script like 'cccl')? On one hand,
there have been attempts to add support for this platform to libtool.
On the other hand, this platforms lacks <dirent.h>, opendir, readdir,
but we have not had a single request for supporting this in gnulib in
7 years.

Bruno




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