Re: <tar.h>

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> > I just found out the hard way that newlib (and hence cygwin) do not
> > provide <tar.h>.  A patch was proposed in 2005[1], but with no response;
> > google turned up no further discussion on the topic.
> >
> > [1] http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2005/msg00099.html
> >
> > Could this patch please be considered?
>
> Ok, checked in.  It never got checked in and there was no follow-up from
> Ralf who submitted it.  The probable reason: nobody cared since no 
> functions reference it; however, yes, it is part of SUSV3, only 
> contains macro definitions, and after two years, one person (you) 
> actually wants it, so I have checked it in.
This was during a big sweep where we tried to reduce the RTEMS
newlib patch to nothing.  I can see where it got lost.  At this point
I assume we didn't miss anything else. :)

Are there other standard header files which don't have functions
that are missing?

--joel
> -- Jeff J.
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> > Yaakov
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