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Re: Cygwin CWD vs. Win32 CWD (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1)


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:46:13PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 20 22:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Aug 20 16:03, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 09:27:25PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > >Erm... btw., how is that different from the message, if you need a
>> > >valid Win32 CWD in your hybrid app, use cygwin_internal(CW_SYNC_WINCWD)?
>> > 
>> > My supposition is that the breakage for hybrid applications is much more
>> > pervasive than for programs which want to delete directories that someone
>> > has cd'ed to.
>> > 
>> > But, actually, I am liking the "just relink your app like this if that
>> > is what you want" solution better.  That means minor tweaks to the
>> > current Cygwin code.  A pure Cygwin app continues to behave like linux.
>> > You just have to rebuild your hybrid app.
>> > 
>> > I think I'll work on a proof-of-concept for that.
>> 
>> That sounds good.  [...]
>
>I have created a patch which implements both, a /usr/lib/winsynccwd.o
>which you can link against, and a new environment setting CYGWIN=winsynccwd.

Uh.  I said *I* was doing this.  You even quoted me above.  Why didn't
you at least *ask* me about this?

cgf


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