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Subject: Re: outstanding issues blocking new release?
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From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date: 08 Aug 2001 00:05:20 +0900
In-Reply-To: Christopher Faylor's message of Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:32:35 -0400
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>>> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:32:35 -0400
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> said:

> I can only think of three issues with cygwin that may need addressing.
> 
> 1) The close_all_files problem that Egor found with exec'ed processes.
> 
> 2) The problem with select() not detecting eof on pipes (Corinna really
>    wants me to fix this).
> 
> 3) The ntsec inheritance stuff.

n) Too large cygwin1.dll.

The size of cygwin1.dll suddenly became large when Egor added
the negative index support to ctype_.c in newlib. I guess the
augmented size of the table makes cygwin1.dll so large, but I
can't find the proper way to solve it.
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