[wellylug] CVS woe

[Cliff Pratt]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
> Ah, Cygwin, which is the single most god-awful POSIX environment
> ever, bypassing even the "Unix in FORTRAN" stuff that was popular
> decades ago.
> 
> You might find your life radically improved by using the "Services
> For Unix" enhanced POSIX layer for Windows, which doesn't suck nearly
> as much.
> 
> That, at least, would eliminate the Cygwin based stupidities from the
>  system for you.
> 
SFU - the acronym says it all. I still have the nightmares. The "POSIX 
layer" AKA "Interix" was/is truly horrible. Cygwin's environment doesn't 
pretend to be POSIX compliant so far as I am aware, does it? It's hard 
to choose between the two, really. SFU (I'm not sure if it was the 
Interix component) used to regularly hose the Windows file permissions. 
Cygwin didn't do that, but it was a nasty hack that I wouldn't have on a 
production system.

Cheers,

Cliff