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Re: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:31:03 -0700
Subject: Re: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin
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Robert Pendell wrote:

| Seems
| like if Microsoft wants to solve their problems, they should re-engineer
| the entire OS on top of a *nix kernel and be done with it.

The last thing Windows needs is still more APIs. They need to kill off about 80% of the legacy APIs and work on debugging and hardening the rest. The attack surface of Windows is *vast*.

Just a few years ago, I helped someone get a DOS program from 1985 running on someone's Windows XP box. It worked fine! The biggest difficulty was in finding the floppy drives to load it. Some consider this a feature, until they're schooled in what this means for security.

That's the lesson they need to take from OS X. Break old programs early, break them often. :)

References:
- Re: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin
  - From: Robert Pendell

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