X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:40:58 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability? Message-ID: <20060420204058.GA7685@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4447BE05.6070103@tibco.com> <20060420170449.GA24155@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060420170449.GA24155@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Apr 20 13:04, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:59:49AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: > >I saw a few comments roughly on this topic when I searched the > >archives, but nothing 100% definite, so I thought I'd ask... Are there > >any plans of making Cygwin more compatible with Interix (and especially > >the SFU/SUA NFS clients)? > > No, there are no plans. I can't speak for Corinna, but, personally, I > have no interest in this. That does not preclude someone offering patches > but I think that's pretty unlikely, too. We're already having two different symlink types, one of them U/Win compatible. I'm, too, not really interested in adding another one(*), especially when there's no documentation and, TTBOMK, no Win32 API. Same for the SFU NFS permission handling which doesn't seem to work transparently using the Win32 security API. Corinna (*) We will probably start using the new symlink API of Windows Longhorn/ Vista at one point when the first non-beta release of Vista is available. This is hopefully compatible with existing file systems like SFU NFS and Samba, but I would neither bet on it, nor does that help for pre-Vista OSes. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/