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Coreutils for Windows
You're conflating MSYS2 with Mingw-w64. MSYS2 installation comes with multiple environments/ABIs and MSYS2 mode a fork of Cygwin. They fork Cygwin, put some patches on and rename the DLL as msys-2.0.dll . Here is the sources for MSYS2 runtime that produces it: https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime . To run bash you need stty, fork, exec. Cygwin implements this via a executable backdoor hack. Since MSYS2 is a fork it uses the same implementation.
Unlike Cygwin MSYS2's goal isn't to be a complete system but ship just enough tooling to enable development with Mingw-w64. Mingw-w64 is the toolchain that ships GCC and it also defines its own ABI where the C ABI is the same as MSVC / Win32 ABI except that Mingw-ABI comes with its own threading and structured exception handling infrastructure. For C++ Mingw-w32 uses Itanium ABI instead of MSVC. If you use GCC to compile the debugging symbols will be DWARF with Mingw-32.
You can also use Clang environments where you can generate PDB debug symbols and use native Win32 threading.
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Whats up with cd //?
I tried browsing git-for-windows/git and msys2/msys2-runtime to see if anyone created an issue related to that, but couldn't find any. As a next step, I think it would be worth it to create an issue in one of these repositories since it does seem to be reproducible and consistent.
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Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
Funny enough, it’s a bit of both. The msys2 runtime is a fork of the Cygwin runtime, and they keep parity pretty well.
https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime
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msys2/msys2-runtime is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of msys2-runtime is C.
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