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by spidercat 12 days ago
What does this do that Cygwin doesn't?
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okanat 12 days ago
Cygwin is like Wine. It fully emulates POSIX and puts a filesystem and syscall emulation layer on top and even an emulation for `/dev`. uutils are strictly limited to what Windows provides natively.
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stronglikedan 12 days ago
this conflicts with native shell utilities of the same name - take that, cygwin!
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