From: "Sander Pool" <dutchguy DOT removethis AT nospam DOT pacbell DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: call to 'open' causes all sleeping drives to awaken!
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:34:08 -0800
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"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT c-o-r-n-e-l-l DOT edu> wrote in message
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>> That is curious. In usual configurations, a maximum of four physical
> drives is the norm, so it would be great if you gave more detailed
> information about the specific configuration of your machine, as well as
> OS etc.

I have 2 IDE controllers on my motherboard and an additional one in a PCI
slot. I use a lot of space for digital video editing. As my original email
said, I use Win2K. Other than that I have a whole bunch of peripherals on
the USB bus but let's not get into that level of detail until we're sure the
problem is unique to my setup.


> I do care. But the fact is, the original post does not give enough
> information: You did not list your config, give a hint of what is in your
> path (which likely is different than the path under mingw), if any drives
> are subst'tituted so on and so forth.

True. I listed items I felt were pertinent to a first attempt at
reproducing. Once it can not be reproduced we can add details.

>
> There are many potential explanations for the behavior you are observing,
> most of which are not bugs. I am not claiming there are no bugs in DJGPP,
> but to be able to identify the issue, more information is needed. So, I
> apologize if you found the question insensitive, but that wasn't what I
> had intended. More information would help us understand and explain the
> behavior your are observing.

Great, I will try to provide the information requested.


> It would be your loss if you gave up on DJGPP because you did not like my
> response. After all, I have not contributed to DJGPP at all. However, I
> do not think any community would be that thankful for such a fuzzy
> problem report.

Look, this was a first mention of the problem into an unknown community. I
spent considerable time debugging this darn problem which I regret already.
I provided a source code example (has anyone compiled and tried it on a
system with sleeping drives?) and an accurate description of the symptom. If
someone had said 'hey thanks for reporting but I can't reproduce it here,
tell me X Y and Z about your system' I would have been more than happy to
reply.

>
> Note that DJGPP and mingw have different capabilities, and if you think
> you might need the features offered by DJGPP, it would be in your
> interest to follow-up with more information, so someone can identify the
> cause of the behavior you are observing, and if it is indeed a bug, fix
> it.

Right now I'm just here because I don't like running away. I realize I may
need DJGPP at some point in the future. More importantly I was hoping to
pre-empt this problem from affecting someone else, not me.

    Sander