Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:06:59 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't cc -ansi disable conflicting type for getline from stdio.h? Message-ID: <31517.1623881219@segfault.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <8033286d-cfb8-59a3-600d-e752f7f963a3@qeng-ho.org>
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In message <8033286d-cfb8-59a3-600d-e752f7f963a3@qeng-ho.org>, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: >> Didn't a read a few years ago that Windoze had basically absorbed all of >> UNIX and that it now provides al of the same stuff, via libraries? >> >> Or maybe I misunderstood. >> >> It certainly seemed consistant with Microsoft's well publicised "embrace, >> extend, and destroy" philosophy at the time I read that. > >You're thinking of WSL (Windows System for Linux). Yes, apparently. (I'm reading the Wikipedia page on that now. Thanks for giving me the name of the thing, so that I could google it.) I'm sure that this "WSL 2" thing is swell for some projects, but for me personally it just looks like more lipstick on the pig. Regards, rfg
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