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Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:07:49 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:51:44PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> Sigh.  If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode
>> mounts at all.  I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it.
>
>Full ACK!  Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project
>already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what that should
>have been good for.

Ditto.  If I was designing this from scratch, I would have avoided
textmode mounts and not made stat() of a 'foo' find 'foo.exe'.

cgf

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