From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 666 invoked by alias); 2 May 2002 04:58:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 657 invoked from network); 2 May 2002 04:58:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 May 2002 04:58:41 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (vpn50-50.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.50]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g424weg03350 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 00:58:40 -0400 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 719D61B3DE; Thu, 2 May 2002 00:58:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 21:58:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: New snapshot with significant new functionality Message-ID: <20020502045844.GA32468@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 A couple of months ago Chris January submitted some significant new functionality to cygwin which I've finally gotten around to merging into the current cygwin sources. His changes add a /proc filesystem to cygwin. You can see what it does by downloading the latest bzip2'ed dll from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/, uncompressing it somewhere, stopping all cygwin processes, and then moving the uncompressed cygwin1.dll into c:\cygwin\bin (or whereever) using the windows COPY command. You can't use cygwin commands to overwrite the cygwin DLL, for hopefully obvious reasons. (And, no, I have no interest in adding snapshot installation abilities to setup.exe. Thanks for coming up with this radical new idea, though.) Once you've done all that you'll be able to amaze yourself by typing: ls /proc or ls /proc/registry Chris has said that he has no time to support this new functionality but I thought it was cool enough to put in anyway. I'll try to fix any reported problems. If you do have problems, report them *here*. Don't send me private email. Don't send email to ChrisJ. Don't send mail to cygwin-apps, cygwin-announce, or cygwin-developers (unless you actually are subscribed and want to talk about the implementation). If you think the code should be patched, don't send mail to cygwin-patches unless you actually have a patch to submit. Have fun. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/