Subject: Re: Announce: ioperm-0.2.1 for cygwin released
From: Marcel Telka <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:52:47 +0100

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:57:35PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
> >This software adds support for ioperm() function to Cygwin. This support
> >includes sys/io.h and sys/perm.h header files (not included in Cygwin by
> >default) together with development and runtime libraries.
> >
> >News in this release:
> >	* Windows DDK is optional for compilation now
> >	* --prefix=/usr parameter for ./configure script is not mandatory now
> >
> >Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/ioperm/
> 
> Is there some reason you're not proposing this as a standard cygwin package?

There are at least two reasons:
1. A device driver (ioperm.sys) is required for running ioperm with NT/2000/XP
2. Windows DDK is required for the driver compilation.

If these drawbacks are acceptable for a standard cygwin package I could start
ioperm integration with mainstream cygwin net distribution.

Any votes? :-)

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Have a nice day

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