Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:15:03 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Forks/spawn test using ~latest~ CVS source 20031217 10:00AM (GMT+1) Message-ID: <20031219031503.GA6595@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20031218230954 DOT GA25465 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:32:10AM +0100, Philippe Torche wrote: >>Sorry, but why would your urgency have any bearing on a community, >>volunteer project? > >Sorry too, We have been surprised by our first test on a multi CPU >engine, after one year of development without big problem (only a tee >problem and rsync not very usable (now using robocopy instead)). And >now we are close to the delivery on 3 Multi CPU Xeon. But probably >like you, we have only mono processor PC, Pentium 3, Pentium 4 and >Athlon XP. I think you really need to read this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html The fact that this is really important to you does not make me reorient my priorities. That's how it works. I'm doing this for free so I get to choose what I want to do. Engaging in a laborious "Now try this" testing scenario through the next week and into the Christmas holiday was not how I planned to spend my time. >I know that threaded applications are difficult to develop. I think you >are our chance to correct this. AFAICT, you are talking about fork, not thread. Just as my usual obligatory aside: You do realize that if/when you release your product it will have to be GPLed right? That means you release the source code of the product and the source code of the cygwin DLL and any utilities you bundle with it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/