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Re: Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Michael Schaap wrote:
> On 13-May-2005 22:54, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 13 May 2005, Michael Schaap wrote:
> >
> >>On 12-May-2005 23:15, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Thu, 12 May 2005, Michael Schaap wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>PS: This is all *way* off-topic for this list. To make up for it, I
> >>>>propose to add a --hippo flag to cygstart. Anyone have a suggestion for
> >>>>what it should do?
> >>>>
> >>>Why, set the Cygwin desktop icon to "the hippo", of course...
> >>>
> >>Hmm... tricky...
> >
> >Not if readshortcut/mkshortcut are available. ;-)
>
> PTC. ;-)
Fair enough...
> >>>Unless you'd rather finish Brian's dancing hippo (i.e., insert the
> >>>Cygwin logo in all frames), then cygcheck could pop up a browser with
> >>>that animation instead.
> >>> Igor
> >>>
> >>Well, I'm a bit artistically challenged, so I'll leave that to someone
> >>else, but the latter part is easy - I attached a patch to do just that.
> >>
> >>Hippopotamical regards,
> >> - Michael
> >
> >Three small comments on the patch:
> >
> >+/* Hippo URL */
> >+#define HIPPO_URL "http://dessent.net/tmp/cyghippo.jpg";;
> >
> >The .jpg file won't have the animation -- I'd make that a .gif, and
> >hope that either Brian completes the graphic endeavour, or, in case
> >someone else does, Brian will post the result on his web site. However,
> >as a temp measure this would do, and you could always release a new
> >cygstart if an animated GIF is announced.
>
> Indeed, it's probably best to point to this URL for now - it works, at
> least - and point to an Official Cygwin Hippo URL once we have an
> Official Cygwin Hippo Animation. (Which should probably be hosted on
> cygwin.com. Or perhaps on all mirror servers, and cygstart --hippo
> would pick the nearest mirror automagically.)
Hmm... tricky...
> >+ { "hippo", '\0', POPT_ARG_NONE, NULL, 'i', \
> > ^^^
> >Why '-i'? Wouldn't '-H' (big-h) be more appropriate?
>
> It would, but it's already taken for --hide. So -i, being the next
> available character.
I went by the output of "cygstart --help". No -H is listed.
> (And in any case, neither -H for --hide and -i for --hippo actually
> work, it's only used internally by popt. I think...)
Ah, that explains it. You could add them to shortopts, and it'd work.
Also, since 'H' for '--hide' is only used internally, you can change it to
any other character with very little pain. After all, Big-H is much more
appropriate for "hippo" -- don't you think? ;-)
> >+ "Show the Cygwin Hippo!", NULL},
> >
> >Shouldn't this be "Show me the Hippo!"? :-)
>
> Good catch!
Thanks. :-)
> Thanks for the code review. Too bad that it's all for
> nothing^H^H^H^H^H^H^H fun, since, obviously, we're never going to
> release this. :-)
>
> - Michael
Aww, too bad. I'm sure Corinna and CGF would be de-lighted to see such a
demonstration of the Cygwin spirit in one of the core packages... :-)
Igor
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