Problem with exec and some suggestions

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 05:16:27PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Gansta93
> >Sent: 04 August 2005 16:54
> 
> > OK... I though an emulator was able to do the same things as Linux,
> > but not Cygwin... 
> 
>   Cygwin isn't an emulator, it's an emulation layer; this is different.
> 
>   If you want to run Linux software on Windows, it does run under Cygwin;
> Cygwin provides all the O/S function calls that Linux has but Windows
> doesn't.  But the binaries aren't compatible.  You have to recompile an
> application from source code, so that it uses Cygwin's header files and
> links with Cygwin's library files.  What Cygwin does is allow you to just
> recompile the file without usually needing to make any changes to the
> source.

I see Dave Korn is using cygwin 1.9.99 (or B20?).  When I use 1.5.18,
Cygwin provides some, not all, that Linux has but Windows doesn't, and
only sometimes, not usually, works without source changes.