X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:45:54 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23 Message-ID: <20090702174554.GD9839@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <55392.99.237.216.211.1246503158.squirrel@www.sidefx.com> <4A4C238B.8070804@byu.net> <20090702031625.GA23085@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <416096c60907012242x6eb2514bp264a175cc31aaa6c@mail.gmail.com> <20090702075806.GO30864@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090702075806.GO30864@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 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