On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 03:08:44PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: >Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:50:19PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>> >>>>Maybe these are not standard packages for administrators, but since you >>>>asked for development packages, these all are basic libraries or >>>>compilers for developers. >>> >>> >>>And, yet, I'm a developer, and I don't have one of those libraries on my >>>system. >.... >>Anyway, I think I got your point. I was really missing top, but today I >>learned that it is already part of the distribution. >> >>Do we have the at command? smartmontools? ntfs-progs? some watchdog? > >I'm looking into adding some mstask.h and ntifs.h to w32api, >but my time is limited. >I'd prefer far more diagnostic features for developers, >esp. better /proc. >Maybe hook those automounts off cygwin.dll and let mount handle that on >demand.
I REALLY don't understand what the confusion is here. I was not soliciting changes to the cygwin DLL or additions to w32api. I was not asking for someone to provide a list of random Debian packages. I provided a list of packages which I thought acted as an example for what I was trying to accomplish. I was trying to come up with a list of missing standard *UNIX/Linux* packages. >And some more parts of util-linux. "some more parts of util-linux" is not specific enough to do anything. >And some kind of port for getloadavg(). >And some hook for mount to load + unload (!) ntifs-based drivers in unix >fashion: ext2fs, ext3fs, procfs, romfs, swapfs, cofs, devfs, ... There is an obvious difference between "packages that should be in the distribution" and "getloadavg" or "ntifs-based drivers". If you'd like to discuss "How I'd love to improve the Cygwin DLL", feel free to start another thread. There is no reason to hijack this one. I had actually naively hoped that people would provide feedback along the lines of "We're missing elm" not "I think that someone should take months of time and develop a driver model for the Cygwin DLL". 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/
