cygwin

[Jerry Feldman]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:55:02 -0500
kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com (Kevin D. Clark) wrote:

> Well, I dunno.  cygwin might be a nice crutch for those students who
> are learning shell scripting, Makefiles, Perl, etc. but for those who
> are interested in learning the Unix/Posix API, cygwin can't hide the
> underlying details enough to cause these to not be an issue that needs
> to be dealt with.
> 
> For example:  every student of Unix learns that file descriptors are
> small and semi-contiguous in value -- but under the win32 API, this
> isn't true.  If your code depends on this being true, it will break
> under the win32 API.
This is true, but NEU does not teach much more than a general Unix
user's course. For the NEU Unix course, the current version of CYGWIN
works. 
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