Re: performance issue with cgywin make

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 08:14:14AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Quoting Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>
>>>Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:59:05 -0500
>>>From: Earnie Boyd
>>>
>>>Alternatives to stat using the windows API though may be a different
>>>issue for the native version.  You won't be able to use those
>>>alternatives for Cygwin or MSYS.
>>
>>Why can't those alternatives be used for Cygwin or MSYS?
>
>Because you'd have headaches with the emulated POSIX paths.

Right.  That plus the whole point of Cygwin (MSYS) is to use the
linux-like interface.

cgf