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Re: Accessing GLOBALROOT paths - a potential compromise???



Corinna Vinschen writes:
> Jeff Kosowsky writes:
>> 2. Should this short routine be added somewhere in the cygwin
>> distribution?
>> It seems incredibly useful and simple.
>
> It's especially incredible trivial.  There's also nothing
> Cygwin-specific in it.  Just build it for yourself if you need it.

Yes it is trivial but since I am distributing my script to others, it would
be nice if it didn't require additional binaries.... and this seems like
pretty basic functionality particularly given the GLOBALROOT limitations of
the cygwin implementation.

Not a terribly big deal though just a suggestion...

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