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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 19:27:24 -0400
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Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.1.0 gdb troubles
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In-Reply-To: <0925.000419@is.lg.ua>; from paul-ml@is.lg.ua on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:13:02PM +0300

On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:13:02PM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>>> Almost any POSIX feature maps one-to-one to win32 one and difference
>>> is only in some idiosyncratic details.
>
>DD> This is an understatement.  For every feature that maps one-to-one, it
>DD> seems like there are a dozen idiosyncratic details that make it
>DD> difficult to meet the POSIX requirements.  A large portion of Cygwin
>DD> is devoted to these details.
>
>    Well, we won't argue on precise number of details and level of
>difficulty to work them around.

Nope.  We'll just make vague assertions that cygwin could do it much
better and that will be that.

cgf

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