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Re: A few Windows build fixes
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: A few Windows build fixes |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:05:35 +0300 |
> From: Andy Moreton <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:43:03 +0100
>
> > Full support for Cygwin-specific file names can only happen on the C
> > level. E.g., in w32.c:normalize_filename. We should probably have a
> > similar function in ntlib, because lib-src programs will need to use
> > it as well (see the example with emacsclient posted here).
> >
> > Anything else will necessarily be buggy or at least incomplete.
>
> I disagree. The right way to get the cygwin mount points is to run
> 'mount -m' and look at the output. Doing so at the C level properly
> involves calling into the cygwin DLL, which is fragile for a non-cygwin
> application.
It doesn't matter who and how runs "mount -m". The results of that
should be used on the C level. Otherwise, the result will be
semi-broken, because Emacs manipulates file names on the C level
without going through Lisp.
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Vijay Lakshminarayanan, 2011/09/01
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Andy Moreton, 2011/09/01
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Andy Moreton, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Jason Rumney, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Vijay Lakshminarayanan, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/02
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/05
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/06
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/07