On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:26:15PM -0500, Rafael Kitover wrote:
>msys seems to do something special for this to work correctly, it also
>seems to translate its paths to windows paths when running windows
>executables automatically, a very nice feature.

Command line munging is a nice feature if you're bastardizing the Cygwin
DLL to sorta work with Windows apps which may or may not take a Windows
PATH.  It's an absolutely terrible feature if you are striving for
compatibility with Linux/POSIX.

cgf

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