From: dumser AT ti DOT com (James Dumser) Subject: Re: Troubles with programs used as CGI's 19 Jun 1997 08:26:06 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199706191448.JAA15556.cygnus.gnu-win32@lesol1.dseg.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Cc: gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de (Gunther Ebert), noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer) In-Reply-To: <339FB539.3C01@ixos-leipzig.de> from "Gunther Ebert" at Jun 12, 97 08:37:13 am X-MIMI-Options: headers none X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Concerning the ability to write CGI programs with cygwin32 (running as multiple users, in different user contexts), we've seen several answers from the list... On Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:15:55 -0700 (PDT), Geoffrey Noer wrote: >This is false. I run multiple cygwin processes concurrently all >the time and don't have any problems doing so. On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:37:13 +0000, Gunther Ebert wrote: >This is a known behaviour of cygwin up to beta 17. It is fixed in >the current release. I have no problems running multiple cygwin tasks >simultaneously under different user accounts with b18. I don't know if Geoffrey was answering the "multiuser" question or just the "multitasking" question (Pasqualino "Titto" Assini's original message may have been misinterpreted as asking about straight multitasking), but I like Gunther's answer much better. Back in B14/B17, this multiuser issue (e.g., CGI programs that may run while you happen to be logged into your machine) was addressed; at that time, the answer was "it's a limitation -- live with it." (I avoided trying to build Perl under cygwin32 specifically because I run CGI Perl scripts.) When B18 was released, I don't recall it being mentioned that it fixed this problem. (Maybe it was mentioned by saying that the underlying problem [Impure data??] was fixed, but I for one did not make the connection.) In any case, if Geoffrey was answering the multiuser question, then his "Of course it works -- what's your problem?" denial-type answer is overly harsh and misleading. Gunther's "It used to not work, but it works now" answer is much more appropriate. Even if Gunther did not know the specific history of the problem, just acknowledging the problem used to exist adds validity to his answer. Not trying to pick on you, Geoffrey -- I'm sure your sanity wears a little thin after answering the same old questions over and over again -- but we were all uninformed on some subject at some point. Guess it's high time to go off to code some CGI programs. :) -- James Dumser 972-462-5335 dumser AT ti DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".