Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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 hear your point, but how much must we oversimplify things for those end-users that don't know what their doing? We already have e2fsprogs; did that contribute to this problem, or is it just that people always think Cygwin can do everything that Linux can (don't we wish!)?
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.
AFAICS, the patch is still necessary. Yaakov
