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 >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