Re: Why is taskset still not in util-linux?

[Mark Geisert <mark@maxrnd.com>]

Eliot Moss wrote:
> Well, I had _thought_ I had done 'cygport install' and run the installed
> version, but I seem to have been wrong.  I seem to have manually over-written
> the proper (stripped) binary with the wrapper!
> 
> Anyway, I've got the whole thing working and offer the attached patches for
> "thoughtful consideration".  I have done away with the need to create an empty
> or fake /usr/local/include/sys/syscall.h and changed the source of the
> relevant programs to conditional #include <sys/syscall.h> on #indef
> __CYGWIN__, which sruck me as more legitimate (the file in questions is
> patched anyway).  And I improved configure.ac so that the programs controlled
> by --enable-schedutils are more independent and can fail individually without
> failing the build.  Part of that was subtituting, as a patch to configure.ac,
> a check for the sched_getaffinity and sched_setaffinity calls in place of the
> check for the corresponding syscall.  The whole builds and installs.  I can
> provide the packaged up version (I assume that is the 'dist' hierarchy) if
> that would be helpful.

Thanks very much for working on all this and contributing it.  I will build and 
test as soon as I can.  I need to research the packaging steps because I intend 
to ITA this package.  I do also want to take another look at the other programs 
built as part of --enable-schedutils; they might (or might not) build cleanly 
but AFAIK there's no support within Cygwin and/or Windows for what they can do 
on Linux.

Thanks again,

..mark