X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:13:07 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: complete newbie Q Message-ID: <20051129171307.GD25782@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:52:05PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >>porting effort. (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's >>a massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin. MSYS provides >>more, > >... but it's not included in the cygwin mingw distribution.) MSYS is just a (very) old version of cygwin with some hacks to translate path names and a different way of dealing with the mount table. So, MSYS will never be included in the cygwin distribution. It wouldn't make any sense to do so. -- 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/