Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Christopher Faylor Message-ID: <19990219202153.A32178@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:21:53 -0500 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin B20 - fseek under gcc fails to reposition on text files References: <8525671D DOT 00525F37 DOT 00 AT D51MTA10 DOT pok DOT ibm DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com