GNU bug report logs - #14541
24.3.50; `ediff-buffers' does not play well with recent Cygwin version

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Message #41 received at 14541 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 14541 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>
Subject: Re: bug#14541: 24.3.50; `ediff-buffers' does not play well with
 recent Cygwin version
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:26:25 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> That's unworkable.  There's no way to set up Emacs to use cygpath in
> every place it passes a file name to external programs.  Especially if
> some of those programs are native Windows executables, not Cygwin
> programs.
>
> So no, there's no way at all to arrange for Cygwin programs invoked
> from a native Emacs to always get Posix-style file names.

Skimming this thread, it seems like there's nothing actionable here on
the Emacs side, so I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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