Re: Question about cygwin-1.5.25-11 release notes

Re: Question about cygwin-1.5.25-11 release notes

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:33:30AM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>Sean Daley wrote:
>>I've got a quick question regarding one of the bullet points on the
>>release of cygwin-1.5.25-11.  - Fix a crash when creating stackdumps on
>>Windows XP x64 Edition and Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition.  When it
>>says crash, does that mean that the 2003x64 OS actually crashes or a
>>cygwin app will crash on 2003x64?
>
>(Hopefully someone will chime in with a more authoritative answer,
>but...)
>
>Cygwin runs fine for me on 2k3 x64, so if you're worried that it just
>crashes in general, it doesn't.
>
>I'm guessing that means things that are supposed to non-destructively
>create stack traces (e.g.  gdb) would crash, or possibly that the trace
>you get when something crashes for some other reason would cause a
>second crash (such that you don't get the trace).
>
>As we were discussing earlier, userspace apps should not be able to
>take out the OS :-), and since I'm not aware of anything in Cygwin that
>tries to run in kernel space, any OS crashes would not be Cygwin's
>fault.

How dare you imply that all cygwin developers are lazy slackers who
don't care if their crappy software inconveniences users with a BSOD?
If I had that kind of attitude I'm sure my dog would notice and pee on
my leg, my landlord would evict me, and my citizenship would be revoked.

BSOD?  Huh?  Now I'm annoyed at myself for using a well-known acronym.

cgf

RE: Question about cygwin-1.5.25-11 release notes

[Dave Korn]

Christopher Faylor wrote on 26 September 2008 18:10:

> BSOD?  Huh?  Now I'm annoyed at myself for using a well-known acronym.


  Acronym?

  I thought it was a four-letter word!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

Re: Question about cygwin-1.5.25-11 release notes

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 06:29:58PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote on 26 September 2008 18:10:
>
>> BSOD?  Huh?  Now I'm annoyed at myself for using a well-known acronym.
>
>
>  Acronym?
>
>  I thought it was a four-letter word!

It's not four-letter word!  It's an *a*bbre*vi*a*tion*!  Now I'm extremely
indignant.

cgf

RE: Question about cygwin-1.5.25-11 release notes

[One Angry User]

On a gloomy Friday afternoon, the 26th day of September, 2008, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> Christopher Faylor wrote on 26 September 2008 18:10:
>
> > BSOD?  Huh?  Now I'm annoyed at myself for using a well-known acronym.
>
>   Acronym?
>   I thought it was a four-letter word!

Where is the list of four-letter words that are not supposed to be used in
polite Cygwin company?  Why hasn't anyone posted one yet?  Huh?

OAU