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Re: Linux Journal Cygwin article


On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:58:08AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>> 
>> Interesting article in Linux Journal on Cygwin:
>> 
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8078
>
>Unfortunately it's not written by someone very familiar with Cygwin. 
>First these's this incorrect statement in the introduction:
>
>"Cygwin does not enable your computer to understand UNIX signals,
>pseudo-terminals (PTYs) and such; it only provides mappings of UNIX
>actions to the Windows platform."
>
>Perhaps he meant to say "it does not enable normal windows applications
>to use signals and PTYs" but Cygwin most certainly supports them for
>anything ported or compiled as a Cygwin app.

Yes, he should have been a little more careful copying my words from
the cygwin web site.

>Then later on he advises on how to setup ssh manually, instead of just
>running ssh-host-config which takes care of everything in one step.

And the author actually gives some bad advice of not using the default
c:\cygwin root directory, claiming that we said it was best to do things
that way.  Why would we have a program with a default that
we didn't want people to use?

cgf

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