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Trapping the Win32 API path functions
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Trapping the Win32 API path functions
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:02:47 -0500
It has occurred to me that we could trap the Win32 functions
which understand paths and slip Cygwin style paths in there.
At the most trivial, we could make a front-end for kernel32.dll
although I'm sure it wouldn't be that easy.
That would allow much greater functionality for non-cygwin
applications. So, you could do something like:
notepad /etc/termcap
or
javac //d/foo/var.j
(Hmm. I wonder why I thought of that example)
Is this crazy? Anyone interested in doing this?
cgf