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Bash has a very convenient feature that is called process substitution (e.g. `diff -u <(seq 0 10) <(seq 1 11)`). To make this work, Bash requires the `/dev/fd` symlink to exist, and Cygwin therefore creates this symlink (together with the `stdin`, `stdout` and `stderr` ones) upon start-up. This strategy is incompatible with the idea of providing a subset of Cygwin in a `.zip` file (because there is no standard way to represent symlinks in `.zip` files, and besides, older Windows versions would potentially lack support for them anyway). That type of `.zip` file is what Git for Windows wants to use, though, bundling a minimal subset for third-party applications in MinGit (see https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/MinGit for details). Let's side-step this problem completely by creating those symlinks implicitly, similar to the way `/dev/` is populated with special devices. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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