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Re: src/winsup/doc ChangeLog new-features.sgml

From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
Cc: Schulman dot Andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 12:46:24 +0000
Subject: Re: src/winsup/doc ChangeLog new-features.sgml
References: <OF99CFFE98.D2CB9CF9-ON85257849.0058EC72-85257849.00591DEA@epamail.epa.gov>

On 4 March 2011 16:13, Schulman.Andrew wrote:
>
>> > Clarification: is the gold star for reinstantiating the original CWD
>> > handling, or for documenting that?
>>
>> Short answer: Yes.
>>
>> Not so short answer: For reinstantiating.
>>
>> Full answer: For going the hard way and debugging ntdll.dll itself
>> to find out how the original works, *plus* for coming up with a
>> testcase to reproduce Vista's new methods, *plus* documenting what
>> the code is doing. ÂThe fact that I created the Cygwin code from there
>> is insignificant in comparison.
>
> Awarded: http://cygwin.com/goldstars/index.html#JC

Nicely summarised. ;)

Andy

References:
- Re: src/winsup/doc ChangeLog new-features.sgml
  - From: Schulman . Andrew

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