/bin/hostname

2003-03-18 Thread Jack Tanner
On Cygwin, /bin/hostname is part of sh-utils. On RedHat, it's part of net-utils and provides a much richer set of options. I discovered this the hard way, when RH8 `/bin/hostname -s` didn't work on cygwin. (On RH8, -s stands for short host name, e.g., the "host" of "host.example.com".) Is there

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

2004-10-12 Thread Jack Tanner
Christopher Faylor wrote: For those who haven't been following along at home, it looks like a change I just made to select() may solve the dreaded "slows down to a crawl with Symantec AntiVirus" problem. This may also improve the performance of things that use sockets slightly. So, I'd appreciate r