> You can donate money. Fair enough.
How? I saw nothing on the cygwin website explaining how this could be done. I'd want donations used explicitly for cygwin. BK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygwin deadlocks due to broken select() when writing to pipes On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:59:17AM -0500, Brian Kelly wrote: >Nevertheless, a few persistent reminders over a long period can have >the same effect as a very large number of complaints in close >proximity. > >There was once a great story in the Reader's Digest I think of some >prisoner somewhere who decided that it'd be nice to have a new library >in the prison. So he started writing lawmakers and telling them that >he wanted a new library for the prison. Every day he mailed a couple >of dozen hand written letters. For three of four years they were >ignored. Then eventually he started getting VERY nasty responses >telling him to bug off. Some even called the warden to get him to >stop, but civil libertarians soon took interest in this and threatened >to sue on his behalf if his mail was censured. Finally everyone was >eventually worn down and around year ten, the legislature voted to fund >the construction of his library - allocating close to TWO MILLION >DOLLARS for the effort. You can buy books. You can donate money. You can't cause a problem to be solved just by incessantly complaining about it. If this technique was uniformly useful then we'd have peace in the Middle East and my son would have a telephone in his room. cgf -- 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/ -- 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/
