Hey guys,
I couldn't sleep last night and thought of this: MSYS is a fork of Cygwin,
which introduced a bunch of POSIX runtime stuff to be able to run all them
shell commands.
What if someone were to write an sh interpreter that used special tricks to
manipulate directory names when it calls programs, which were all compiled
for native Win32? The sh interpreter could act as a process/thread manager
that handles all the shell's forking.
I know there would be some trickiness involved when running shell scripts
containing Unix-like directory names, although I don't think it would be
undoable.
This might be exactly what MSYS does of course, but it requires a special
build environment and ancient GCC (although the mysterious MSYS2 will
probably fix this).
Cheers,
Ruben
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