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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Philippe Torche Subject: Re: Forks/spawn test using ~latest~ CVS source 20031217 10:00AM (GMT+1) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:42:19 +0100 Organization: JLE informatique Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <20031218230954.GA25465@redhat.com> <20031219031503.GA6595@redhat.com> Reply-To: philippe.torche@jle.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 In-Reply-To: <20031219031503.GA6595@redhat.com> Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:32:10AM +0100, Philippe Torche wrote: > >>>Sorry, but why would your urgency have any bearing on a community, >>>volunteer project? >> >>Sorry too, We have been surprised by our first test on a multi CPU >>engine, after one year of development without big problem (only a tee >>problem and rsync not very usable (now using robocopy instead)). And >>now we are close to the delivery on 3 Multi CPU Xeon. But probably >>like you, we have only mono processor PC, Pentium 3, Pentium 4 and >>Athlon XP. > > > I think you really need to read this: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > The fact that this is really important to you does not make me reorient > my priorities. That's how it works. I'm doing this for free so I get > to choose what I want to do. Engaging in a laborious "Now try this" > testing scenario through the next week and into the Christmas holiday > was not how I planned to spend my time. It's Christmas holiday for me too since next wednesday ! And have some nice time with my family. > > >>I know that threaded applications are difficult to develop. I think you >>are our chance to correct this. > > > AFAICT, you are talking about fork, not thread. > > Just as my usual obligatory aside: You do realize that if/when you release > your product it will have to be GPLed right? That means you release the > source code of the product and the source code of the cygwin DLL and > any utilities you bundle with it. > Yes, we will and we do that already ! -- 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/