From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin deadlocks due to broken select() when writing to pipes
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031031063308.GA24816@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006201c39f74$1edda210$6700a8c0@maxstars8g31h2>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:59:17AM -0500, Brian Kelly wrote:
>Nevertheless, a few persistent reminders over a long period can have
>the same effect as a very large number of complaints in close
>proximity.
>
>There was once a great story in the Reader's Digest I think of some
>prisoner somewhere who decided that it'd be nice to have a new library
>in the prison. So he started writing lawmakers and telling them that
>he wanted a new library for the prison. Every day he mailed a couple
>of dozen hand written letters. For three of four years they were
>ignored. Then eventually he started getting VERY nasty responses
>telling him to bug off. Some even called the warden to get him to
>stop, but civil libertarians soon took interest in this and threatened
>to sue on his behalf if his mail was censured. Finally everyone was
>eventually worn down and around year ten, the legislature voted to fund
>the construction of his library - allocating close to TWO MILLION
>DOLLARS for the effort.
You can buy books. You can donate money. You can't cause a problem to
be solved just by incessantly complaining about it.
If this technique was uniformly useful then we'd have peace in the
Middle East and my son would have a telephone in his room.
cgf
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-31 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-31 4:35 Cygwin " Bob Byrnes
2003-10-31 5:14 ` Dylan Cuthbert
2003-10-31 5:27 ` cygwin " Christopher Faylor
2003-11-02 15:29 ` Dylan Cuthbert
2003-11-02 19:41 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-11-03 2:55 ` Dylan Cuthbert
2003-11-05 1:52 ` Dylan Cuthbert
2003-11-12 2:29 ` Dylan Cuthbert
2003-11-12 17:45 ` Brian Ford
2003-10-31 5:22 ` Cygwin " Brian Kelly
2003-10-31 5:55 ` cygwin " Christopher Faylor
2003-10-31 9:02 ` Brian Kelly
2003-10-31 9:15 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2003-10-31 14:09 ` cygwin deadlocks due to lack of money Brian Kelly
2003-10-31 16:12 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-11-01 6:07 ` cygwin deadlocks due to broken select() when writing to pipes Brian Kelly
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20031031063308.GA24816@redhat.com \
--to=cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).