Marcel Telka wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:57:35PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote: >>> This software adds support for ioperm() function to Cygwin. This >>> support includes sys/io.h and sys/perm.h header files (not included >>> in Cygwin by default) together with development and runtime >>> libraries. >>> >>> News in this release: >>> * Windows DDK is optional for compilation now >>> * --prefix=/usr parameter for ./configure script is not mandatory >>> now >>> >>> Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/ioperm/ >> >> Is there some reason you're not proposing this as a standard cygwin >> package? > > There are at least two reasons: > 1. A device driver (ioperm.sys) is required for running ioperm with > NT/2000/XP > 2. Windows DDK is required for the driver compilation. > > If these drawbacks are acceptable for a standard cygwin package I > could start ioperm integration with mainstream cygwin net > distribution.
Personal opinion ONLY: 1. is annoying but probably acceptable if there is some way to install it. 2. is likely a problem. Are you aware that w32api has some ddk support now? That might be a way around this problem. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
