From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	RE: Patch to alleviate wait function problems
15 Jul 1998 11:39:16 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<199807151814.OAA01782.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@kramden.cygnus.com>
To:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru
Cc:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

>From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru>
>Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:57:46 +0400
>
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Sergey, if you have the time, would you mind putting this patch into a
>> "coolview" release?  I'd be very interested in finding out if this solves
>> any problems (or breaks anything).
>>
>
>Done :-)

Thanks very much, Sergey.

>BTW, did you try my "files_select" patch to perform a select() on disk 
>files too? The diff on my web page updated for the last winsup snapshot. 
>Also I have there a replacement for ps command with more unix-like 
>syntax/semantics.

I've been meaning to ask you about the files_select patch.  I was going
to install it, but then I noticed that the Single UNIX man page for select
says that files are supposed to be "always ready".  I don't know what POSIX
says, but I am not sure that we should be installing non-standard stuff.
I *do* think that being able to select on files is a nice idea, though.

I hadn't noticed the ps replacement.  I'll take a look at it.  Did you notice
my change to ps in the recent snapshot?  I created an external interface to
some of cygwin's functions and have a standard structure for passing process
information that won't change between releases.  That means that,
starting now, an old version of ps will now work with a newer version of
cygwin.  Theoretically, at least.

-Chris

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