Hi,
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Maybe getenv() under MinGW always returns a real string, and it's just
> empty?
No. It is not Oracle: it _does_ return NULL if it is not set, and an empty
string iff it is set to an empty string.
> - datestamp() uses "time()" to get the number of seconds since the epoch.
> HOWEVER, it does it by actually doing
>
> time_t now;
>
> time(&now);
>
> which is proper, but maybe a bit unusual.
MinGW does that quite fine (actually, it just calls the MS C Runtime
library; maybe they still had a clue bat back when they wrote that?).
> Alternatively, if "time()" just doesn't work in MinGW, just use
> gettimeofday() instead, [...]
Funnily enough, MinGW does not have gettimeofday(). Actually, for purposes
of getting git to compile, I had to
int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, void *tz)
{
return -1;
}
;-)
> Anyway. I have no idea of Windows or MinGW, or what you did to make it
> all compile, so..
Lucky you! Fortunately, I don't have any Windows at home (but I still have
windows, thank God!). So I cannot even be tempted to work on this thing in
my free time.
Ciao,
Dscho
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