Anybody know anything about Windows?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Achim Gratz via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Eric S. Raymond via devel writes:
> > It could be re-ported, with sufficient determination. If I were going
> > to do it in C I'd use one of the Unix-based cross-compilation
> > toolchains rather than native Windows tools or Cygwin - you get much
> > better conformance to modern C and POSIX that way, which is important
> > because the port shims you need to use if you don't have close
> > conformance are major, *major* defect attractors.
> 
> I call bullshit on that one.  When was the last time you actually used
> Cygwin?

I've never used Cygwin directly.

I'm going by the frequency of Cygwin-specific shims I've seen, and had
to maintain, in GPSD.
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