Well, call it objections... I can't quite see the benfit of mkswap and
the fsck resp. mkfs backends in the Cygwin distro. You know what will
happen, don't you? We have already people once in a while asking if
Cygwin can access, say, ext2 filesystems, but these tools add a new type
of confusion, along the lines of "I created a swap (bfs, minix)
partition but I can't mount it in Cygwin. Cygwin is bOrked." Do we
really want that?
I have never a problem if somebody takes over maintainership for one
of my packages ;-)
However, would you mind to test if setsid still *needs* the patches
I made? They were necessarey way back when, but the changed console
handling in Cygwin might make them unnecessary.