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Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos


On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 07:22:57AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>On 04/30/2011 05:31 AM, bob 295 wrote:
>>>This is a free software project so you can see for yourself what's
>>>needed.  The majority of the code is in fhandler_fifo.cc.
>>
>>Sounds like a perfect candidate for a Google Summer of Code project
>>proposal.
>
>Not this year; the deadline's already passed for 2011.  And I hope that
>if someone wants to pitch in and help cgf with a rewrite that they
>would do so before waiting for SoC 2012.

Right.

I don't believe that a student would really be useful in this context
unless you could find someone who understood windows + posix + cygwin
thoroughly.  Otherwise they'd spend most of the summer coming up to
speed.

cgf

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