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Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
> Also, someone called Interix a POS, which I can't find on
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms, but I guess is derogatory (I originally
> though "POsix Simulation" or something, to tell the truth).  Is there a
> list of reasons of the drawbacks of Interix somewhere?

Um, yeah, that would be derogatory. :-)

Canonical list? I doubt it, but...
- Not open source
- Bad support for Windows pipes

...and mainly, trying to do 'make' on a large project consistently 
caused my shell to hang, with the result that it was Just Plain 
Unusable. IOW, it was absolutely useless to me, therefore IMO a POS. :-)

FYI: http://www.acronymdb.com/acronym/POS <-- yup, derogatory... (alas, 
google works better when you already know what it stands for ;-))

-- 
Matthew
Now where did I put my hippo?


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