Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:37:35 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Followup on eliminating symlink ReadFile calls -- it's not necessary Message-ID: <20010215193735.A14208@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010214174608.17253.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <20010214161306.D18567@redhat.com> <20010215000556.23697.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <3A8B35A8.E8BEEA00@ece.gatech.edu> <20010215135736.27689.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <3A8C32BC.671471B7@etr-usa.com> <20010215172739.D10277@redhat.com> <9589-Thu15Feb2001231715+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <9589-Thu15Feb2001231715+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>; from starksb@ebi.ac.uk on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:17:14PM +0000 On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:17:14PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Thursday 15 Feb 01, Christopher Faylor writes: >> >.... Someone needs to be monitoring the mailing list, looking >> >for questions that come up a lot and add them to the FAQ, even if only >> >as a link into the mailing list archives. This solves the "mailing list >> >is not documentation" problem: the FAQ item puts a useful title on the >> >solution, like "How do I increase Cygwin performance?" >> > >> >No, sorry, I am not volunteering. :) I don't want to maintain 3 FAQs. >> >> Been here long? We have a FAQ maintainer. (David, you are still there, >> right?) > >I'm still alive, however, I have not been monitoring the main cygwin >list since about mid-December. I was away from mail for a month, and >haven't since mustered the courage to tackle the backlog of about 10^6 >messages that must sit there by now. That, and I thought I could get >some other things under control first. Those things have taken longer >than I thought they would. > >I fully plan to get back on track, but it may take another week or so >to catch up completely. Of course, if someone else can do a better >job, we can talk about that too. I haven't seen any real FAQ emergencies for a while, so there is no need to panic. :-) cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple