Re: Texinfo 7.1.90 on mingw

[Bruno Haible]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cygwin does a similar thing; not inside bash but inside its fork+exec()
> > system calls (which bash uses, of course). [4]
> 
> Not entirely, because, for example, /dev/null is left unchanged.

Fortunately Cygwin does not do this sort of heuristic substitutions in
argv[1..argc] — otherwise I couldn't recommend Cygwin either.

> Also, drive letters are not handled, AFAIR, so invoking programs from
> another drive could be problematic. 

That is acceptable; it's only a minor restriction for a developer and no
restriction in a CI environment (which has only one drive, typically).

Bruno