Fwd: Re: mingw - free_osfhnd

Danny Smith danny_r_smith_2001@yahoo.co.nz
Wed Sep 4 02:01:00 GMT 2002


Forgot to include cygwin-patches in reply to Rob

 --- Danny Smith <danny_r_smith_2001@yahoo.co.nz> wrote: > Date: Wed, 4 Sep
2002 18:56:29 +1000 (EST)
> From: Danny Smith <danny_r_smith_2001@yahoo.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: mingw - free_osfhnd
> To: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
> 
>  --- Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at
> 13:29, Danny Smith wrote:
> > >  --- Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com> wrote: > Changelog:
> > > > 
> > > > 2002-09-04  Robert Collins  <robertc@cygwin.com>
> > > > 
> > > > 	* msvcrt.def: Export _free_osfhnd.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this ok Earnie/Danny?
> > > 
> > > I can't see this in my msvcrt.dll.  Where do you see it?
> > > Danny
> > 
> > Its one of the undocumented internals... along with _get_osfhnd and
> > _set_osfhnd. (I think that _get_osfhnd is there already).
>  
> No, only the *_osfhandle functions that are documented. 
> 
> > 
> > The NT Native port of squid, build with Visual C uses this when linking
> > to MSVCRT. As a reference in 1999 XEmacs started using this call, but
> > they defined it locally rather than patching mingw from what I can tell.
> > 
> > Rob
> > 
> 
> Okay, but do you see it in mscvrt.dll?  I can't see it in the export table
> anywhere.  I would accept that the internals may be available from the static
> libc but not from dll (ms doesn't do the --export-all, for good reason, I
> suspect)
> 
> Danny
> 
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> 
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