Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <014801c35162$1146e6d0$19c3fea9@RAnderson> From: "Richard Anderson" To: Cc: "Timothy C Prince" , References: <1058981234.c86164c0tprince@myrealbox.com> <006a01c35145$3e0dc930$19c3fea9@RAnderson> <3F1ED6EC.6040100@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:33:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall" To: "Richard Anderson" Cc: "Timothy C Prince" ; Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:41 AM Subject: Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem > Richard Anderson wrote: > > > So this is a know issue? Seems like non-standard behavior for a Windows app. > > All Windows apps that I know of catch the shutdown interrupt, clean up their > > data structures and exit gracefully. Is there some reason why Cygwin can't > > do this? > > Let's turn the question around. Are you interested in implementing and > submitting a patch to do this? I'm sure folks here would be willing to > discuss the viability of such functionality in the context of a patch > to implement it. > Timothy, your response might be interpreted as an attempt to discourage the user community from reporting problems or questioning apparent design flaws. I would think that a discussion group like this is the proper forum for submitting comments like my original e-mail. Any open-source software project that doesn't encourage comments from the user community is cutting itself off from a valuable source of feedback. Richard Anderson richard@richard-anderson.org Richard.Anderson@raycosoft.com www.richard-anderson.org www.raycosoft.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/