On 6/18/2013 16:04, Warren Young wrote:
You're proposing some kind of global search-and-replace
operation, which will inevitably turn into a Whac-a-Mole game.
I just thought of an example. How many POSIX paths are in this
perfectly legal command, which invokes a native Windows executable?
$ xcopy /bin foo bar
The wrong answer is, "three."
Now tell me how cygwin1.dll is expected to realize it should only
translate the final two arguments to xcopy.
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