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Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:19:12PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The shell is needed for the "shell" command.  The shell is not used for
> > running programs.
> 
> The latter is unlike on Posix platforms, right?

That is an implementation artifact that, IMO, we desperately need to
move away from.  It's a continual source of trouble from e.g.
unexpected variable settings in shell initialization files, and it's
an aggravating (to me) external dependency for GDB.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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