Re: numerous bugs i've found in cygwin while developing XEmacs

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:39:56AM -0500, Michael Potter wrote:
>Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:19:00PM -0500, Michael Potter wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:59:45PM -0500, Michael Potter wrote:
>>>> >>You should resubmit as an mmap only bug.  Cygipc's shmat support uses
>>>> >>mmap, and cygwins 'native' shmat support is in development.  Chances
>>>> >>are, any shmat bug reports will (unfortunately) end up in /dev/null.
>>>> >
>>>> >Just did.
>>>>
>>>> And, I believe that this was a problem which was reported back in April.
>>>> If so, it's been fixed in snapshots for a while. cgf
>>
>>I did my home work :).
>>
>>So, you're saying that you you actually tried a cygwin snapshot?
>
>No.  It is not very easy for me to try snapshots.  We are a UNIX shop
>and we only have one win2k box, and it is not controlled by me.  
>It is actually shared by many people using terminal services and
>some slick little linux boxes from a company called neoware.
>
>I have asked the sysadmin to install the lastest snap shot.
>
>> If so, that would have been useful information to have.  I haven't been
>> paying attention to your cygipc bug reports so if you mentioned this
>> there, then I missed it.
>
>I put the version of cygwin (1.3.10) in the subject line.  It was
>my impression that it was the latest "stable" release.  How often
>do you recommend that I ask my system administrator to download
>and install the lastest release?

I don't recommend anything except that I do recommend that if you have a
problem and someone says "Fixed in the latest snapshot" you can 1) try
the snapshot or 2) not try the snapshot, but don't keep describing a bug
that may be fixed in the snapshot.

In other words if I say "I fixed it, go here to try it".  The correct
response from you is not "It is not fixed" unless you've actually tried
what I told you to try.

cgf

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