[Simh] Simh on Windows - long startup delays and long shutdown delays

Thomas Pfau pfau at nbpfaus.net
Sun Dec 16 12:01:33 EST 2007


Davis Johnson wrote:
> The basic difficulty is that fopen() is standard. I had never heard of 
> fopen_s() so I did a little googling and, so far as I can tell, fopen_s 
> is a Microsoft invention, not part of any standard.
>From my limited experiences with the latest Visual Studio, it would
appear that Microsoft has declared half the standard C RTL as deprecated
claiming some kind of security problems.  I think it's really about
lock-in.  If they can come up with new versions of standard functions
and make you think you need to use them for security's sake, they can
keep you from easily porting your program to another platform.  I fail
to see the security issues they raise for most of the functions they've
replaced.




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