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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple