My company is apparently working on getting my assignment worked out, so if/when they do, I would be interested in taking on this package.
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:27:35 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:07:23PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: >>Getting tired of loading disks, I structured a local mirror of the >>Debian directory structure and tried running Cygwin >>dpkg-scanpackages. I expected it to take a while, so I wasn't >>surprised - I just went and make some more coffee. But after 20 >>minutes I suspected something was wrong and fired up ProcessExplorer. >> Under my console bash I discovered: >>+perl (OK, dpkg-scanpackeages is a big perl script I guess) >>++dpkg-deb >>++rm.exe <==== getting 98% of the CPU time and not making any >>progress. Watching the handles display, I see an open handle on what >>must be the first *.deb file found so I'm pretty sure of the "no >>progress -= stuck!" diagnosis. >> >>Killed it all, ran my scan with the identical sh script in Debian >>proper. It did, indeed, take a bit of time but it completed without a >>hitch and /bin/rm never stayed long enough for me to see it: perl got >>about 3 sec. CPU, dpkg-deb about 2, find about 2, everything else less >>than 1. >Since Robert Collins is no longer actively involved with the Cygwin >community, this package is now unmaintained. >If no one wants to claim it within the next week or so, I'll probably >remove it from the distribution. >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/
