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 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:07:49 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails Message-ID: <20040819160749.GI18770@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <41235C84 DOT 7060300 AT gtt-technologies DOT de> <4123B56F DOT 6010003 AT gymel DOT com> <41245BEE DOT 4090900 AT gtt-technologies DOT de> <921297065040 DOT 20040819105955 AT familiehaase DOT de> <41247824 DOT 2070901 AT gymel DOT com> <412481BC DOT 3010000 AT gymel DOT com> <4124A107 DOT 2070403 AT gymel DOT com> <791319485950 DOT 20040819171336 AT familiehaase DOT de> <20040819155144 DOT GC10590 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040819155144.GC10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:51:44PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 19 17:13, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> Sigh. If I were the god of Cygwin, I would have not created textmode >> mounts at all. I cannot see the point why it is neccessary to use it. > >Full ACK! Unfortunately the genuine gods of Cygwin have left the project >already long ago and they probably don't even know anymore what that should >have been good for. Ditto. If I was designing this from scratch, I would have avoided textmode mounts and not made stat() of a 'foo' find 'foo.exe'. cgf -- 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/