From: Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>
To: Cygwin-L <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C0ECBF.9020807@etr-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C0D956.4090905@etr-usa.com>
On 6/18/2013 16:04, Warren Young wrote:
> You're proposing some kind of global search-and-replace
> operation, which will inevitably turn into a Whac-a-Mole game.
I just thought of an example. How many POSIX paths are in this
perfectly legal command, which invokes a native Windows executable?
$ xcopy /bin foo bar
The wrong answer is, "three."
Now tell me how cygwin1.dll is expected to realize it should only
translate the final two arguments to xcopy.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-18 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-18 18:59 Алексей Павлов
2013-06-18 19:10 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-18 19:30 ` Warren Young
2013-06-18 19:31 ` Алексей Павлов
2013-06-18 22:12 ` Warren Young
2013-06-18 22:35 ` Warren Young
2013-06-18 23:51 ` Warren Young [this message]
2013-06-19 2:03 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-19 7:17 ` Алексей Павлов
2013-06-19 8:15 ` Alexey Pavlov
2013-06-19 11:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-19 13:02 ` Alexey Pavlov
2013-06-19 17:31 ` Warren Young
2013-06-19 17:57 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-20 3:30 ` Charles Wilson
2013-06-20 13:12 ` Earnie Boyd
2013-06-20 17:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-19 13:41 ` Charles Wilson
2013-06-19 18:38 ` Warren Young
2013-06-19 19:27 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2013-06-20 18:11 ` cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin) Warren Young
2013-06-20 18:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-21 4:41 ` Andrew Schulman
2013-06-21 8:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-21 16:55 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-21 20:35 ` Andrew Schulman
2013-06-21 21:01 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-24 9:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-24 11:31 ` Earnie Boyd
2013-06-24 11:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-25 11:12 ` Csaba Raduly
2013-06-25 12:06 ` Earnie Boyd
2013-06-21 18:07 ` cygport limitations Warren Young
2013-06-21 18:38 ` Warren Young
2013-06-21 19:31 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2013-06-24 9:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-20 19:11 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2013-06-21 7:26 ` Warren Young
2013-06-20 22:31 ` David Stacey
2013-06-18 21:22 ` Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin Christopher Faylor
2013-06-18 21:29 ` Warren Young
2013-06-19 2:05 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-19 9:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-19 9:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-19 17:03 ` Warren Young
2013-06-19 17:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-06-18 21:33 ` Charles Wilson
2013-06-19 2:06 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-06-19 13:59 ` Charles Wilson
2013-06-19 15:56 ` Earnie Boyd
2013-06-19 20:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
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