X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C60B1FB.20700@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:57:15 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100720 Fedora/3.1.1-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, chiheng.xu@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Cygwin vs MSYS [WAS: Making config.guess detect mingw64 platform?] References: <4C4F7390.7000708@users.sourceforge.net> <4C502643.5000604@users.sourceforge.net> <4C5060C9.8070505@users.sourceforge.net> <4C519892.7080306@users.sourceforge.net> <4C51D47F.1010601@users.sourceforge.net> <4C51DD43.3010308@users.sourceforge.net> <4C603A09.7060804@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5AC3AB777F249DFF3BABA0B6" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 --------------enig5AC3AB777F249DFF3BABA0B6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 08/09/2010 07:19 PM, Chiheng Xu wrote: > As far as I know, Cygwin has dropped text mode in 1.7, only providing > binary mode. This make Cygwin more like an real Linux environment. I > think this is because many Unix tools can not work perfectly at text > mode. Not true. But you are correct that in 1.7 it is harder to get text mode processing in a default install, because text mode is a) slower, and b) less tested. >=20 > As far as I know, Cygwin now use Windows shortcut to implement > symlink. This work well with native apps. Not true. Cygwin can read windows shortcuts as symlinks, but does not generate windows shortcuts to hold new symlinks because windows shortcuts are inherently limited in such a way that they cannot serve as true POSIX symlinks. >=20 > Last year, I have tried to patch bash-3.2 of Cygwin to let it's "pwd" > built-in command to print the Win32 version of current working > directory, like "d:/work/gcc" , instead of "/cygdrive/d/work/gcc". Such a patch will never be accepted in the cygwin port of bash. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig5AC3AB777F249DFF3BABA0B6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJMYLH/AAoJEKeha0olJ0Nq4pQH/jvpuqvh4fy3B6bqC+SRk7ey stSSJejJU8zLS9T6avMFBVVhuGYa8XOV3z6/UYzbZ8w8pjRDVuUTn+M/UtdA8PMx 7R/yVnDp3qjVo3i9z8LquzN3PaJOfT4MAeN4sap66ooVisU5WRoZM2633LU29GRs s798yX4x2nuNHMPZwz1Kxwwo+YayvYe+ucG/YdbvRoWHTFKzwT9ufG/cUjN9XkKW cYWrgnoWiDyoMMKaC6D+KGRql4DEooadfSU1qkWMPVl3PO/5pZ21RxlYCDzZISsq ClYBUWcU5owOKhE65145l+fjTCCjP1cIMrMli2uR2VFVITdk4+3F45mviJThxAM= =nyBx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5AC3AB777F249DFF3BABA0B6--