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Re: A few Windows build fixes
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: A few Windows build fixes |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:29:01 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > Yes, we do: on the lowest possible level that Emacs handles file names
>> > before it passes them to system APIs. I pointed out the relevant
>> > function in w32.c where that happens. If you transform all file names
>> > there, every single feature of Emacs will work as expected by users.
>> You're talking about adding support for cygwin file names at the very
>> lowest level?
> I'm saying that this is the only way to have reliable support for
> Cygwin file names (as opposed to something that only "mostly" works).
>> We'd want it to have zero impact to the users who don't use cygwin
>> (and may not even have it installed), of course.
> They will never see such file names.
That can be argued (all file names starting with "/" are potential
Cygwin names). But the issue I was referring to is that we want the
Emacs executable to work even if Cygwin is not available, so either we
have to re-implement the Cygwin file-name translation (as is partly done
in cygwin-mount) or we have to dyn-load the Cygwin run-time
when available.
>> Also, once cygwin file names are supported, I think people will expect
>> more integration of (native) Emacs and cygwin, e.g. in subprocesses.
> What problems are there with Cygwin subprocesses? Emacs already
> recognizes Cygwin executables and adapts itself, at least to some
> extent (quoting of command-line arguments).
I thought we still had problems delivering signals to them.
If not, great.
Stefan
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, (continued)
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/02
- 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 <=
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/07
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Hannu Koivisto, 2011/09/08
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/08
- Re: A few Windows build fixes, Hannu Koivisto, 2011/09/08
Re: A few Windows build fixes, Vijay Lakshminarayanan, 2011/09/02
Re: A few Windows build fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/01