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Subject: Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?
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On Apr 20 13:04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:59:49AM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
> >I saw a few comments roughly on this topic when I searched the
> >archives, but nothing 100% definite, so I thought I'd ask...  Are there
> >any plans of making Cygwin more compatible with Interix (and especially
> >the SFU/SUA NFS clients)?
> 
> No, there are no plans.  I can't speak for Corinna, but, personally, I
> have no interest in this.  That does not preclude someone offering patches
> but I think that's pretty unlikely, too.

We're already having two different symlink types, one of them U/Win
compatible.  I'm, too, not really interested in adding another one(*),
especially when there's no documentation and, TTBOMK, no Win32 API.
Same for the SFU NFS permission handling which doesn't seem to work
transparently using the Win32 security API.


Corinna

(*) We will probably start using the new symlink API of Windows Longhorn/
    Vista at one point when the first non-beta release of Vista is
    available.  This is hopefully compatible with existing file systems
    like SFU NFS and Samba, but I would neither bet on it, nor does that
    help for pre-Vista OSes.

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

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