RE: MinGW cleanup patch

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Peter Ekberg wrote:

> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Peter Ekberg wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:50:14AM CET:
> > > The second hunk is perhaps a bit messy though, some other
> > > solution might be better...
> >
> > Why does MinGW declare execv in a broken way?  Can't they fix that?
>
> I don't know. Sorry. I might muster some energy and ask them, but
> I'm not sure I'm going to bother.

I expect that part of the reason is that MinGW is a clone of the 
Windows API rather than Unix so they will define the interface 
according to publically available Windows API specifications.

Bob
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