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Re: Patch to pass file descriptors
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 07:24:45PM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>"Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>>The bottom line is that I don't want to have to tell Red Hat's
>>customers to install a server component if they want to use cygwin. I
>>also don't want to have to tell every person who wants to release a
>>standalone cygwin program that they have to copy around cygwin1.dll and
>>cygserver.exe, finding some way to start cygserver automatically.
>
>Got you: basically customers shouldn't be forced to use the setup
>program but should be able to treat cygwin like any other DLL their
>program might use. That wasn't a scenario I was considering and it's a
>good point.
Thanks for understanding.
The flip side of this is that cygserver functionality is something that
I've dreamed of adding to cygwin since 1997. So please don't read the
above as a negation of the concept itself.
cgf