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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 16:31:44 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:00:08PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>On 11/4/2013 3:35 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>>    Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or
>> not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin?
>
>I think there would just be cons to using "cmd.exe" commands from within
>Cygwin. ;-)  Obviously, this can end up being pretty subjective.  But some
>of cons would be:
>
>   o Doesn't understand PTYs (an issue when running a terminal like mintty)
>   o Doesn't understand impersonation tokens used by ssh for pubkey
>     authentication
>   o Doesn't understand POSIX paths
>   o Possible namespace/functional overlap and/or collisions
>
>Many of these can be worked around in one way or another but that's not
>enough to move them out of the "con" category. ;-)

One con is that cmd recognizes "con" as a device rather than a filename...

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