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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:33:16AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 19 02:03, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:42:21PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> >The other crazy idea would be to override the Win32 file and path
>> >functions and handle the notion of a current directory entirely within
>> >Cygwin for both Win32 and Cygwin functions, but IIRC, playing games with
>> >Windows API functions was explicitly rejected a while ago.
>> 
>> Right.  I suggested that in cygwin-developers but neither Corinna nor I
>> could really convince ourselves that it was a good idea.
>
>IMHO it's what you would call a bottomless pit.

Yeah, we try to avoid things with the "BP" acronym these days.

cgf

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