From: vischne AT ibm DOT net Subject: Towards a more user-friendly cygwin.dll 10 Nov 1997 20:42:01 -0800 Message-ID: <199711110328.DAA162976.cygnus.gnu-win32@out1.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com One of the interesting design issues in the cygwin.dll system is the use of a default `heap_chunk_size' that appears to be inadequate for most situations. After getting the Unix slrn news reader to compile with cygwin gcc, and after changing the slrn.c file so as to use a more cygwin-kind version of the `system(cmd_line)' command, there still appears at the bottom of the screen a message notifying the user that the heap has been `split' and that this odious circumstance calls for a particularly heroic endeavor on the part of the user; namely, the altering of a certain `heap_chunk_size' variable in the Windows system registry. Now, this isn't a problem to someone who knows what the registry editor is, yet it transpires that cygwin is referenced in two places by this Windows registry, and it is not at all clear exactly _where_ in relation to, say, the cygwin.dll registry entry, the `heap_chunk_size' is to appear. Let us hope that future incarnations of cygwin will remember that 32-bit programming was supposed to free us all from the nuisance of finite and bounded heaps. - 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".