Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox
Corinna Vinschen
vinschen@redhat.com
Tue Jul 1 08:15:00 GMT 2003
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:43:03PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
> Seems to me that we're trying too hard to accommodate both worlds
> in this discussion. The real goal is to get better UNIX support. This
> contradicts Win32isms. If it didn't, we wouldn't need this effort. All
> the paths in question are easily accessible via POSIX paths, so there is
> no need to try to accommodate those who would use Win32-like paths and
> expect
> them to act as such. The concession one must accept to use this option
> is POSIX paths. So I say just make a clean break and let it go at that.
> Of course, there will be those who try, fail, and complain. But part of
> this work includes the proper FAQ entries that we can all reference in
> response, right? ;-)
No DOS paths at all if cwd is below one of these mount points?
Yes, why not? Whoever is using this mount flag had to think already
about the consequences.
Corinna
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