On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:18:19AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Graig on 10/14/2007 7:51 AM: >> The message below generated an email thread amongst the gnu folks, > >to which, I reiterate what I said in that thread: > >>I maintain the cygwin port of coreutils. Cygwin's philosophy is a bit >>different from some of the other ports to windows: when using binary >>mounts, cygwin's goal is to behave like Linux. Since ptx on Linux has >>the same behavior in treating \r literally, that is why I have made no >>effort for cygwin to behave any differently when you are using a cygwin >>binary mount. Put another way, the fact that you use a binary mount on >>cygwin is an agreement on your part to use files that are >>binary-compatible with Linux (ie no \r line endings), and tools like >>d2u should be used to convert problem files on a cygwin binary mount. >>On the other hand, you can use a cygwin text mount, which will ignore >>the \r with no recompilation required.
So who is the maintainer of coreutils for cygwin? I missed that part. We should definitely get their take on this. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
