On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 04:32:59PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Dec 10 16:48, Noel Grandin wrote: >>On 2013-12-10 12:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>Sorry if that is frustrating in your current situation, but this isn't >>>something we can just change at a whim and go ahead. It would break >>>compatibility with all existing Cygwin executables. >> >>Maybe this is something that could be fixed only in the 64-bit version >>of Cygwin? > >Did you really read my mail? There is no fix. You can handle this >wrongly one way or the other. If in doubt, I prefer the POSIXly >correct way.
Also, even if it was something that could be "fixed", since the 64-bit version of Cygwin has been out for some time now, breaking backwards compatibility would still be bad. -- 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
