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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:08:44 +0100
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: packages that should be in the cygwin distribution but aren't
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Gerrit P. Haase schrieb:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:50:19PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe these are not standard packages for administrators, but since you
>>> asked for development packages, these all are basic libraries or
>>> compilers for developers.
>>
>>
>> And, yet, I'm a developer, and I don't have one of those libraries on my
>> system.
....
> Anyway, I think I got your point.  I was really missing top, but today I 
> learned that it is already part of the distribution.
> 
> Do we have the at command? smartmontools? ntfs-progs? some watchdog?

I'm looking into adding some mstask.h and ntifs.h to w32api,
but my time is limited.
I'd prefer far more diagnostic features for developers,
esp. better /proc.
Maybe hook those automounts off cygwin.dll and let mount handle that on 
demand.
And some more parts of util-linux.
And some kind of port for getloadavg().
And some hook for mount to load + unload (!) ntifs-based drivers in unix 
fashion: ext2fs, ext3fs, procfs, romfs, swapfs, cofs, devfs, ...
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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