"run" changes behavior with cygwin-17.6

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 19 06:04:00 GMT 2010


On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:42:21PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>The other crazy idea would be to override the Win32 file and path
>functions and handle the notion of a current directory entirely within
>Cygwin for both Win32 and Cygwin functions, but IIRC, playing games with
>Windows API functions was explicitly rejected a while ago.

Right.  I suggested that in cygwin-developers but neither Corinna nor I
could really convince ourselves that it was a good idea.

cgf

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