MSYS mode (continue)

[Charles Wilson]

On 7/3/2013 5:57 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 05:03:04PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Or is the proposal on the table for the same installation to be usable
>> in both modes, depending on the nature of the launched application?
>
> That's an interesting idea but I don't think anyone was proposing that.
>
> Is there any reason why we'd need to add a hook to filename parsing?
> That would be an alternative to hooking fstab.

Well, MSYS doesn't mind dos-style filenames, so the big-ugly-warn-once 
thing shouldn't happen... And if we ever do, really and truly, deprecate 
dos-style paths for cygwin /proper/, you'd need to hook the parsing in 
order to restore that functionality for cygwin-/msys/.

--
Chuck



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