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Date:	Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:37:41 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, bug-coreutils AT gnu DOT org
Subject:	Re: mkdir -p and EROFS
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On Oct 13 00:02, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Christopher Faylor writes:
> > I'm just wondering if there is some kind of official coreutils policy
> > here.
> 
> Not for coreutils itself, no.  However, the GNU coding standards make
> it clear that porting to systems like Cygwin is lower priority for the
> GNU project than porting to GNU/Linux.  See
> <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/System-Portability.html>.

I book a place for Cygwin in the "other UNIX-like systems" category,
according to the third paragraph.


Corinna

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