[extropy-chat] when will computers improve?

[Alan Eliasen]

Alan Eliasen wrote:
>    Actually, Cygwin is on the APE.  But it's one of the larger causes of
> my pain, when you look at its portability issues.  :)  One of the
> biggest problems is the way they do symbolic links--they actually set
> the "system" file attribute on each file that's a symbolic link and the
> operating system has to see that and act appropriately.

   Clarification--it's not the operating system but *every application*
that has to understand the "system" attribute trick.  That's why other
applications can't even share files in the cygwin tree reliably.

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