_argc & _argv

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:57:03PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 07:50:07PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote:
>>On 1 Aug 2000, at 21:49, the Illustrious Chris Faylor wrote:
>>>The only way to get the argc and argv parameters is in your main
>>>function.  They are passed as arguments.
>>>
>>>Cygwin does not have external globals that point to argc or argv.
>>>Neither does UNIX.
>>
>>I know Unix doesn't...I didn't know that Cygwin echoed that.  I think
>>that is the answer I was attempting to elicit.
>>
>>Thank you for your patience.
>
>Cygwin does try to stride two worlds and it is not always easy to see
>the distinction between the Windows way and the UNIX way.  In
>retrospect, I can't honestly say that we didn't implement __argv and
>__argc because "They don't do things that way on Windows" because we
						  ^^^^^^^
						  UNIX.

>have made other concessions to the Microsoft way of doing things.
>
>In this case the real answer as to why there is no __argv and __argc is
>probably "Because no one thought to add it."
>
>Have fun,
>cgf
>
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