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Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?
On Apr 20 13:04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:59:49AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
> >I saw a few comments roughly on this topic when I searched the
> >archives, but nothing 100% definite, so I thought I'd ask... Are there
> >any plans of making Cygwin more compatible with Interix (and especially
> >the SFU/SUA NFS clients)?
>
> No, there are no plans. I can't speak for Corinna, but, personally, I
> have no interest in this. That does not preclude someone offering patches
> but I think that's pretty unlikely, too.
We're already having two different symlink types, one of them U/Win
compatible. I'm, too, not really interested in adding another one(*),
especially when there's no documentation and, TTBOMK, no Win32 API.
Same for the SFU NFS permission handling which doesn't seem to work
transparently using the Win32 security API.
Corinna
(*) We will probably start using the new symlink API of Windows Longhorn/
Vista at one point when the first non-beta release of Vista is
available. This is hopefully compatible with existing file systems
like SFU NFS and Samba, but I would neither bet on it, nor does that
help for pre-Vista OSes.
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