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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:21:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: Cygwin B20 - fseek under gcc fails to reposition on text files
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In-Reply-To: <8525671D.00525F37.00@D51MTA10.pok.ibm.com>; from setera@us.ibm.com on Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 09:00:04AM -0600

On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 09:00:04AM -0600, setera AT us DOT ibm DOT com wrote:
>
>>Currently, Corinna, Mumit, and a couple of other people are the only
>>outside contributers to the project.  Everyone else seems to be in
>>"Cygwin doesn't work the way I think it should when I run program X.
>>Here's the error message." mode.
>>
>>I'm collecting the error messages and hope to investigate problems but
>>the reality is that this is a volunteer effort for DJ and me.  Our
>>real jobs don't offer much time for tracking down net problems.
>
>I can certainly understand your frustrations.  In my GIMP work, I've had a
>heck of a time with some hanging problems which I've reported to you.  I
>report them to you and DJ not because I *expect* you to jump and fix them,
>but because I am clueless on how to fix them myself.  I *have* downloaded
>the source code and *have* attempted to understand the infrastructure
>enough to solve the problems.  In my case at least, if there were more
>documentation on the internals of the winsup code, I might be able to solve
>some problems on my own.  Unfortunately, I think with the exception of a
>few people (you, DJ, Sergey, etc) most do not have a good enough
>understanding of the internals of winsup to really be able to help out.  On
>the other hand, I try not to complain about things either.

It is not impossible to figure out how things work with cygwin.  I know
because I did it.  You may not remember, or maybe you weren't around,
but I started out as a net contributer before Cygnus hired me.

Cygwin is certainly considerably less complicated than Linux ever was
and people have managed to make considerable contributions to the Linux
kernel.

As I said, if you can't contribute, I certainly understand but, it's a fact of
life that things are not going to change quickly with 2.5 people working on the
project, especially when most of those people have day jobs.

cgf

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