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On 2 Dec 2002, Jason Rumney wrote:

> My impression is that many of the misfeatures might be considered
> features by those who would use the Cygwin port.

This might indeed be so, but there's no way of knowing whether it's true 
without doing the footwork.

> Mostly they don't
> want to interact with Windows programs in the Windows way.

If this is accepted as the official policy of the Cygwin build, it should 
be at least documented.

Anyway, that's only one aspect of the issue; there are others.  For 
example, case-insensitivity in file names is something I'd expect Cygwin 
users to want Emacs to DTRT with.