X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:57:24 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: mingw-msys@lists.sourceforge.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Schwarz, Konrad wrote: > Also, someone called Interix a POS, which I can't find on > http://cygwin.com/acronyms, but I guess is derogatory (I originally > though "POsix Simulation" or something, to tell the truth). Is there a > list of reasons of the drawbacks of Interix somewhere? Um, yeah, that would be derogatory. :-) Canonical list? I doubt it, but... - Not open source - Bad support for Windows pipes ...and mainly, trying to do 'make' on a large project consistently caused my shell to hang, with the result that it was Just Plain Unusable. IOW, it was absolutely useless to me, therefore IMO a POS. :-) FYI: http://www.acronymdb.com/acronym/POS <-- yup, derogatory... (alas, google works better when you already know what it stands for ;-)) -- Matthew Now where did I put my hippo? -- 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/