Using cp converts windows junctions to a cywin symlink

I was copying a directory of files, some of which were windows junctions. These got converted to a cygwin symlink. Although I am impressed that there are such a thing for those OSs/drives that do not support such things, for those that do, I think it would be good to keep the copy a junction. Oth

mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

I inadvertently dumped a binary stream to the terminal and it froze mintty. When I tried to kill the process dumping the data, it wouldn't die, even when using -9 switch. When I used Process Explorer to kill it, it died and mintty resumed working. I narrowed the stream down to 370 'lines' by cat