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On Aug 19 02:03, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:42:21PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> >The other crazy idea would be to override the Win32 file and path
> >functions and handle the notion of a current directory entirely within
> >Cygwin for both Win32 and Cygwin functions, but IIRC, playing games with
> >Windows API functions was explicitly rejected a while ago.
> 
> Right.  I suggested that in cygwin-developers but neither Corinna nor I
> could really convince ourselves that it was a good idea.

IMHO it's what you would call a bottomless pit.


Corinna

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