On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 04:00:08PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 11/4/2013 3:35 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >> Hi; >> >> Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or >> not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin? > >I think there would just be cons to using "cmd.exe" commands from within >Cygwin. ;-) Obviously, this can end up being pretty subjective. But some >of cons would be: > > o Doesn't understand PTYs (an issue when running a terminal like mintty) > o Doesn't understand impersonation tokens used by ssh for pubkey > authentication > o Doesn't understand POSIX paths > o Possible namespace/functional overlap and/or collisions > >Many of these can be worked around in one way or another but that's not >enough to move them out of the "con" category. ;-)
One con is that cmd recognizes "con" as a device rather than a filename... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
