Re: GDB Ctrl-C Interrupt Fails WORKAROUND

[One Angry User <angry@lusers.org>]

On a sunny Friday, the 16th day of June, 2006, Christopher Faylor's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:05:56PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >On 15 June 2006 22:29, Charli Li wrote:
> >>>>For example, build the loopdll.dll and runloop.exe from the following
> >>>>sources using the gcc and m$ compilers as indicated:
> >>>
> >>>Isn't the m'$' compiler you're using actually free?  If so, the dollar
> >>>sign appears to be misplaced.
> >>
> >>Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition is free; all other editions are not.
> >>The only thing us Cygwin users use from MSVC++8 is cl.
> >
> >Wrong kind of free, though.  It's free as in beer, not free as in
> >"here's the sources".
>
> Still the continued use of the '$' in Microsoft's name has gotten sort
> of old.  Is it supposed to be funny?  It can't possibly be funny since
> it's been used 8,397,423,921 times in usenet and in mailing lists.
>
> Is it supposed to be a condemnation of the fact that a corporation is in
> it for the money?  Well, duh.
>
> Is it supposed to be a political commentary about the evilness of
> Microsoft?  Sorry, but I don't see the "$" as a mark of the devil.
>
> I guess it's part of our usenet culture now but, like so many repetitive
> trends on the CygWin board, I'm sick of it.  It seems to me, that the
> philsophy of CygWin should allow tolerance for all people and all
> corporations.  Isn't CygWin supposed to promote peach, love, and
> umbrella stands?  I am a long time CygWin user and I think that, if
> CygWin is to truly evolve, it should move beyond Microsoft platforms and
> possibly even consider running directly on LinUX rather than emulating
> it.
>
> Think about it.  Then we could run rpm natively and use real inodes.  It
> wouldn't loop endlessly when installing Windows Service Packs because there
> would be *no* windows service packs to install!  It would be straight
> LinUX all of the way!
>
> I don't have time to implement this myself because I have to pee really
> bad right now but I think this deserves quite a bit of discussion.  I
> think that you should all explain why this is a bad idea to me
> repeatedly so that I can feel important while I continue to remind you
> that I have to pee and can't do anything other than send email and
> make the same points over and over again.
>
> What is wrong with this scenario?  Are you all just cowards?  Is that
> why you haven't already implemented my insightful plan?
>
> Also, I think if Cygwin is truly to survive, it should not be encumbered
> by the GDL.  You should not need a driver's license to use software!
> I've been programming for 47 years and it is ridiculous to force this
> on users.

Surprisingly, that actually sounded like a message from Ed C. Lueless...

OAU