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[Adam Baxter <voltagex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> I think that depends on how far we're willing to go to avoid modifications
> to the original source.

If we tried to provide grep with the failure code it expects, I think

that would bring us into compatibility layer territory. Instead, we

should just accept that that's how windows works and modify grep to

account for it.


Sounds reasonable, but probably best to defer to Garrett and other people
who know more than me - do we focus on shallow forking the libraries, the
applications or take it on a case by case basis? How should the CoApp
project deal with the concepts of making the software work within the
Windows ecosystem, rather than going down the Cygwin route of bringing
Unixisms to Windows? (maybe that discussion belongs in a new thread?)


--Sfsm