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 From: Wolfgang Spraul Organization: Q AG To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Possibly OT: Can Cygwin and MS Services for Unix coexist peacefully? Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:57:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404101757.10191.wspraul@q-ag.de> Igor - > Just to make this somewhat on-topic: if you succeed, please perform some > competitive analysis, and let this list know what, in your opinion, is > Cygwin missing that MS SFU has? > Igor My biggest issue with Cygwin (compared to SFU) right now is the lack of support for paths longer than MAX_PATH characters. AFAIK there are patches, but they are not in the standard build, and only partially solve the problem. I want to play with GNU arch a little bit, and the path limitation is a problem, although workarounds exist. Regards, Wolfgang -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/