Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:58:06 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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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.


Corinna

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