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@@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ A C<fork()> failure may result in the following tests failing:
See comment on fork in L<Miscellaneous> below.
+=head1 Specific features of the Cygwin port
+
=head2 Script Portability on Cygwin
Cygwin does an outstanding job of providing UNIX-like semantics on top of
@@ -470,6 +472,25 @@ F<http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe> to install it and run rebaseall.
=back
+=head2 Prebuilt methods:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<Cwd::cwd>
+
+Returns current working directory.
+
+=item C<Cygwin::pid_to_winpid>
+
+Translates a cygwin pid to the corresponding Windows pid (which may or
+may not be the same).
+
+=item C<Cygwin::winpid_to_pid>
+
+Translates a Windows pid to the corresponding cygwin pid (if any).
+
+=back
+
=head1 INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
This will install Perl, including I<man> pages.