From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11648 invoked by alias); 10 May 2006 14:24:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 11640 invoked by uid 22791); 10 May 2006 14:24:10 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 May 2006 14:24:00 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4AENwWj010174 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 10:23:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:24:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: RE: Test: zip-2.31 and unzip-5.52 In-Reply-To: <000f01c67428$b7fd6a30$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Message-ID: References: <000f01c67428$b7fd6a30$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00223.txt.bz2 On Wed, 10 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 10 May 2006 03:44, Charles Wilson wrote: > > > Notwithstanding the 'use posix instead of windows' ethos, we ARE, > > undeniably, running on windows. That's special. > > What, "special" as in "winning-an-argument-on-the-internet" special? ;) > > > Why does cygwin require patches, indeed... > > To patch up the holes where it burst open when a hippo sat on it? As long as we're afloat in the water and don't have to protect the internals from outside pressure, many people won't mind the holes... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"