MSYS mode (continue)

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Thu Jul 4 14:49:00 GMT 2013


On 7/4/2013 4:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  3 17:57, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 05:03:04PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> Or is the proposal on the table for the same installation to be usable
>>> in both modes, depending on the nature of the launched application?
>>
>> That's an interesting idea but I don't think anyone was proposing that.
>
> Any suggestion how this could work?

Badly, now that I think about it.  Say you're in cygwin-proper bash 
session, and you launch a cygwin-msys-linked exe, or a native tool -- 
and pass a pathname to it as an argument. How is it interpreted -- using 
which fstab?

No, forget I said anything.

--
Chuck



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