X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:04:02 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6 Message-ID: <20100819170402.GA9090@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20100818192238 DOT GA27567 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20100818193446 DOT GC11340 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20100818193940 DOT GA4358 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20100818195546 DOT GF11340 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4C6C3B15 DOT 2000605 AT redhat DOT com> <20100818201921 DOT GI11340 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <4C6C7DED DOT 40509 AT gmail DOT com> <20100819060355 DOT GB6960 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20100819083316 DOT GP11340 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100819083316.GP11340@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:33:16AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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. Yeah, we try to avoid things with the "BP" acronym these days. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple