Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm's Bro. tale...? From: Robert Collins To: "linda w (cyg)" Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <002801c2e6a9$52ed9a80$1403a8c0@sc.tlinx.org> References: <002801c2e6a9$52ed9a80$1403a8c0 AT sc DOT tlinx DOT org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-eS6tQjIZ5d9MQxHVZiMD" Organization: Message-Id: <1047266710.29863.12.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 10 Mar 2003 14:25:10 +1100 --=-eS6tQjIZ5d9MQxHVZiMD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 13:04, linda w (cyg) wrote: > Is that the only reason > because some program may someday write into those directories and > may write files with the same names into those directories? In the mists of time, such programs *did* exist. IIRC MKS NutCracker was one of them. Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-eS6tQjIZ5d9MQxHVZiMD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+bAWWI5+kQ8LJcoIRAvnSAJ97NWBtbN1FxpVHsNmBvc04WuOwqwCcCzFx tCSPUb4WSyciV6n6cIVv7B4= =bH3A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-eS6tQjIZ5d9MQxHVZiMD--