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Re: newbie's gripe with NT/2K/XP integration
- From: Michael Hoffman <grouse at mail dot utexas dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Gen Zhang <the_real_genneth at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:13:01 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
- Subject: Re: newbie's gripe with NT/2K/XP integration
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Gen Zhang wrote:
> my question is why does cygwin support the technologically challenged
> platforms 9x/ME and ruining what could be much better support for the NT
> series.
The reason the developers don't gratuitously break Cygwin for
thousands of users is because they're mean. At least that's what I've
always figured. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> for example, the interface with security under 9x is actually
> non-existent anyway and removing support for 9x would make cygwin code
> smaller and neater (i'm an advocate of _very_ elegant coding), not to
> mention faster and more secure (what do you know, i mentioned them
> anyway :).
Why don't you do it and report back to the list on the speed gains?
There are security problems with Cygwin that have nothing to do with the
non-NT Windows.
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq_4.html#SEC79
> in any case, now that microsoft has combined 9x an NT into XP, isn't it time
> that cygwin follows suit?
No.
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Michael Hoffman <grouse@mail.utexas.edu>
The University of Texas at Austin
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