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On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:58:06AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul  2 06:42, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> 2009/7/2 Christopher Faylor:
>> > And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various
>> > "Why is Cygwin so slow????" threads that have been here in the last
>> > month. ?Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms
>> > to work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause corresponding slowness
>> > for everything.
>> 
>> Will text mount points be chucked out completely eventually? Those are
>> pure evil.
>
>No, they will stay since there are people out there still relying on
>text mounts.  However, as far as I'm concerned (and I have a gut feeling
>that cgf has a quite similar point of view) we won't ask maintaners to
>go out of their way to care for them.

Yeah, they are still apparently a necessarily evil.  However talk about
code complication...  That's one of the worst.

cgf

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