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On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:58:06AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jul 2 06:42, Andy Koppe wrote: >> 2009/7/2 Christopher Faylor: >> > And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various >> > "Why is Cygwin so slow????" threads that have been here in the last >> > month. ?Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms >> > to work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause corresponding slowness >> > for everything. >> >> Will text mount points be chucked out completely eventually? Those are >> pure evil. > >No, they will stay since there are people out there still relying on >text mounts. However, as far as I'm concerned (and I have a gut feeling >that cgf has a quite similar point of view) we won't ask maintaners to >go out of their way to care for them. Yeah, they are still apparently a necessarily evil. However talk about code complication... That's one of the worst. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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