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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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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