From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor) Subject: Re: heap_chunk_size [was:] Towards a more user-friendly cygwin.dll 12 Nov 1997 07:08:29 -0800 Message-ID: References: <009BD297 DOT 36878F20 DOT 27830 AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de> Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In article <009BD297 DOT 36878F20 DOT 27830 AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de>, wrote: >Hi, you wrote: > >: 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. > >I wrote about this at least 3 times without answer! >Some of my monster processes are >100MB, so I can't use Cygwin, but OpenNT >works. Haven't tried UWIN yet... CYGWIN is a work in progress. It is free software. Source code is available. Given the nature of the project, unless you capture the fancy of someone who knows about, or is interested in learning, the innards of fork, you may have to wait a long time for fixes to become available. So, there are multiple scenarios available: 1) Dive into the source code and see what you can do to help. 2) Keep posting your problem to the mailing list until someone gets interested and fixes it. 3) Post wry observations about the state of the code with vague hopes that things will work "as they should" in the next release. 4) Post diatribes about the stupidity of the current implementation while making assertions about how "easy" it would be to fix, letting everyone know that you could fix it but can't because you "don't have time right now". 5) Respond to posts of similar problems with "I know! I have the same problem and no one wanted to help me!" 6) Respond to posts that have nothing to do with your problem with "I know! And, they won't fix my problem either!" 7) Announce to the mailing list that you are going to have to use a competing product because their code "works". 8) Try posting to the mailing list with the word "NEWBIE" in upper case and plead pitifully for help on the grounds that you are just learning C/C++ and barely know how to type. Flatter the people here by referring to them as "CYGWIN gurus". 9) Post your problem. Post it again. Post it one more time under a different subject with a little note at the top that says "I'm not sure if this went out or not so I'm posting it again." 10) Post your problem but refer to the people on the mailing list as "fellow hackers". Try to engender a quasi-conspiratorial "wink, wink, say no more" comraderie by throwing in words like "dude" and "the man". Hope this helps. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf AT bbc DOT com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - 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".