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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated [security]: bash-3.2.49-23


On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:03:39PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>If you have /cygdrive/c mounted as a text mount point, then
>
>echo > /cygdrive/c/file
>
>continues to do text processing, but the alternate construct
>
>echo > c:\file
>
>now behaves in a binary fashion (in 1.5, I had been special casing DOS
>paths to make them obey the underlying mount point, but cygwin 1.7 goes
>further to discourage DOS paths, so I'm no longer worried about
>maintaining that special-case).

And for those who want to wail about this, take a look at the various
"Why is Cygwin so slow????" threads that have been here in the last
month.  Every special case accommodation we make to allow MS-DOSisms
to work seamlessly adds code to Cygwin and cause corresponding slowness
for everything.

cgf

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