On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 Brian<dot>Kelly<at>Empireblue<dot>com wrote:
> ... but to actually bestow my praise. > > First I would like to drag up some mud from the past: > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:52:53PM -0400, Brian<dot>Kelly<at>empireblue<dot>com > > wrote: Umm, even though it's your own address, please don't quote raw e-mail addresses in messages. Let's not make the spam harvesters' life any easier... > >> Ah well, someday the denial will end, or the problem will get fixed > >> unintentionally when some other change is made and the "cygworld will > >> go on". > > cgf: > > If cygwin triggers a windows problem that does not mean > > that it is a cygwin problem no matter how hard that is for you to > > understand. > > > I fix all sorts of problems in cygwin which are really windows > > problems but, golly gee, if I can't duplicate them, I can't fix them. > > And, my willingness to debug some things is limited. If it takes > > running a perl script every five minutes for a day to duplicate the > > problem, then that is not something that I'm going to do anytime soon. > > > This is not denial. This is a refusal to take a large amount of my time > > to find a workaround to a windows problem. > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg00442.html > > Heh, heh - well cygwin fans, I'd like to report that as of 1.5.6-1, it > *appears* that numerous memory and process hanging problems I've been > having since the dawn of time have *suddenly* disappeared!!!!! I have yet > to fully determine if I can dispense with RAMpage, but so far things look > VERY encouraging. Good to hear that. > Once again I'd like to thank cgf, Corrina, Igor, and all other > contributor's for their efforts in fixing this *WINDOWS* problem. ;-) > > Brian Kelly FTR, I had nothing to do with fixing this problem. My new copyright assignment is still in the lawyers' la-la land, so I didn't contribute any Cygwin library code lately. I'd say Pierre and maybe Thomas (Pfaff) deserve some credit here, in addition, of course, to CGF and Corinna. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
