X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_CG,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:06:36 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos Message-ID: <20110430190636.GA15004@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <201104300731 DOT 04766 DOT icanprogram AT 295 DOT ca> <4DBC0D31 DOT 70803 AT redhat DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DBC0D31.70803@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 07:22:57AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >On 04/30/2011 05:31 AM, bob 295 wrote: >>>This is a free software project so you can see for yourself what's >>>needed. The majority of the code is in fhandler_fifo.cc. >> >>Sounds like a perfect candidate for a Google Summer of Code project >>proposal. > >Not this year; the deadline's already passed for 2011. And I hope that >if someone wants to pitch in and help cgf with a rewrite that they >would do so before waiting for SoC 2012. Right. I don't believe that a student would really be useful in this context unless you could find someone who understood windows + posix + cygwin thoroughly. Otherwise they'd spend most of the summer coming up to speed. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple