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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 01:15:52 +1100
From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>
To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gmake is slow under cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <20000927002710.A7341@cygnus.com>; from Chris Faylor on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:27:10AM -0400

On 27-Sep-2000, Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> AFAIK, it's not improper to treat two leading slashes as "special" anyway.

I thought I had heard that one of the POSIX standards (ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990,
I think) prohibited that?

Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the relevant standard on hand to
check it.

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