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> -----Original Message----- > From: Gary R. Van Sickle [mailto:g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net] > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:25 PM > #1 is basically the same as what you propose, though I'm not > sure I'm wild about the DLL idea; if everything's a builtin, > why not just statically link? Several reasons. 1) I'm a user and I want foo-version of bar. How do I get that? 2) I'm in cmd.exe and want to run bar - does it still exist? 3) I'm running setup.exe and ls has been updated - do I download an updated fileutils package or an updated bash package? 4) I'm a user and I want to add a new builtin. One thing I'm considering doing is contributing a posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to cygwin, to enhance the vfork capability. That should allow patchs to be contributed upstream to gcc etc to remove fork - because posix_spawn is a standard, it wouldn't be see as a cygwin hack. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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