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Re: Cygdaemon - planning
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:38:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Cygdaemon - planning
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
>
> > Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:57:28AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>I think Earnie is saying that well-written code would notice the ENOSYS
> > >>>>error and use alternative solutions at run time.
> > >>>
> > >>>Correct, and the cygwin-apps review process would need to consider it
> > >>>manditory for the package acceptance/upgrade process.
> > >>
> > >>But Corinna wasn't necessarily concerned about official cygwin packages,
> > >>if I am understanding this correctly.
> > >>
> > >>(Can you tell that I don't have a really strong opinion on this one way
> > >>or the other? :-))
> > >
> > >
> > > Me neither. :-)
> > >
> > > If the caller doesn't check the return value, then it's not our fault, and thus
> > > not out problem. :-)
> >
> > In relative terms of course. Whether "our" fault or not, the list will
> > be the first place the confused user turns. It behooves us to find a way
> > to mitigate, if not eliminate, this list noise if at all possible.
>
> It's just good programming practice IMO, which, granted, a lot of Cygwin list
> user's do not have. ;-) If we start getting lot's of confused gnomes trying to
> use, say shmop, and have problems..it could become a new FAQ. :-) I'm lloking
> forward to. It certainly makes a change from "wtf is su?!?!?" type questions.
> Cygserver's motto could be "We're mean..even when remote!"..
>
> Elfyn
"Remote meanness", now that has a nice ring to it... :-)
Igor
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