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"Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:30:34AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>> I hate glibc. One day we're going to discover that glibc has become to
>> Linux what cygwin is to Windows.
>
> what is cygwin to windows? (let the cygwin hate begin!)
The worst possible implementation of a badly designed and poorly thought
out case of "not invented here" the world has yet seen?
Not only does the design ignore the existing POSIX layer for Windows
entirely, it then went on to introduce such wonders as zero-security
shared memory segments containing trusted data for all Cygwin code.
It managed, somehow, to actually hurt *more* in terms of DLL skew than
Windows applications did, which is impressive. This is probably
connected with the previous comment.
It managed to screw up implementing any real POSIX networking while also
managing to screw up network performance, all of which was done in the
face of a stack that did actually map fairly well to the semantics they
needed.
Daniel
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