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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:29:15 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 04:32:59PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 10 16:48, Noel Grandin wrote:
>>On 2013-12-10 12:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>Sorry if that is frustrating in your current situation, but this isn't
>>>something we can just change at a whim and go ahead.  It would break
>>>compatibility with all existing Cygwin executables.
>>
>>Maybe this is something that could be fixed only in the 64-bit version
>>of Cygwin?
>
>Did you really read my mail?  There is no fix.  You can handle this
>wrongly one way or the other.  If in doubt, I prefer the POSIXly
>correct way.

Also, even if it was something that could be "fixed", since the 64-bit
version of Cygwin has been out for some time now, breaking backwards
compatibility would still be bad.

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