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

Toby Thain toby at smartgames.ca
Sun Dec 16 12:04:46 EST 2007


On 16-Dec-07, at 3:01 PM, Thomas Pfau wrote:

> 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 think you're on to something...

--Toby

> I fail
> to see the security issues they raise for most of the functions  
> they've
> replaced.
>
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