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Re: Cygwin CWD vs. Win32 CWD (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1)
On Aug 25 09:44, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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?
Sorry about that. I had a bit of time and thought it would be helpful
to move this issue forward. Feel free to disregard the actual code.
Corinna
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