Re: MinGW cleanup patch

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:28:57PM CET:
> 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.

Yes, sure.  But execv is declared differently by POSIX.  
And AFAICS it's /not/ part of the native Windows API.

..

I looked.  Yes, Windows API seems to have something like this.  :-/
OK, if noone objects, I'll also apply the other hunk.

Regards,
Ralf