Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-developers-subscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin-developers/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:42:43 -0500
To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Mo Dejong's install problems
Message-ID: <20000331154243.A1841@cygnus.com>
Reply-To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cgf AT cygnus DOT com, cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
References: <20000331154409 DOT 9248 DOT qmail AT web110 DOT yahoomail DOT com> <200003311625 DOT KAA04456 AT hp2 DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> <20000331124210 DOT F1182 AT cygnus DOT com> <007601bf9b3c$a9187a80$02af6080 AT cc DOT telcordia DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i
In-Reply-To: <007601bf9b3c$a9187a80$02af6080@cc.telcordia.com>; from sos@prospect.com.ru on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:12:18PM -0500

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:12:18PM -0500, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>> >One way is to create a tiny Cygwin app that is always running, and that
>> >creates that shareable area that all Cygwin processes attach to. Sort of
>> >a 'init' process. If it's dead, the next Cygwin DLL load will start it
>> >again.
>>
>> Maybe we ought to install inetd by default.  Kill two or three birds with
>> one stone...
>>
>
>BTW, a two or three years ago I ported linux's init to cygwin. It worked,
>but was forgotten... Along with running /etc/rc to start inetd etc, I had
>several getty running to accept a modem incoming calls:-)

Hmm....  Interesting.  We'd have to modify the DLL to allow init to be process
1, though.  It just wouldn't be right otherwise.

cgf