Hello! > > 1. Cygwin misses linux/types.h > > I have been trying to get this fixed upstream for quite some time > without success: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/11/604 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/15/608 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/28/84
Looks like Linux developers have taken over Olympus from greek gods, and totally don't care about anyone except themselves any mote. I have already met this problem when tried to push Amiga SFS filesystem implementation to LKML. They told me something like: "We are *L*I*N*U*X*, we have own cool filesystems and we don't care about one more obscure filesystem". I was extremely angry and barely stopped myself from replying that whole their Linux is not less obscure, because 99% of the world actually use NTFS. :( Again, from the practical point of view... May be make some package like linux-compat ? P.S. I have got even more crazy idea, perhaps deserving a separate topic... BSD systems have Linux binary compatibility layer. Could we have one ? Technically this depends on ability to construct process image manually in Windows (*). Is it possible (using NT API of course) ? And, of course, someone needs lots of spare time to code this. :) OTOH, CoLinux already does this (yep, they are not 64-bit for now...), so perhaps there's no need to duplicate the job done. P.P.S. Perhaps the answer to (*) is NO, otherwise we would have fast fork()... Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research center Russia -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
