> I don't like to introduce lots of unnecessary decision points into a > product. It increases support and it increases code complexity. This patch is literally few lines long. I doubt it adds much complexity. > > Once again, how does linux handle this scenario? You don't do a > "export LINUX=linbeep" to get linux to use the soundcard. > > cgf > I know only about one way how to do this in GNU/Linux. It is this ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/misc/modreq_beep.tgz kernel module and user space daemon that gets notified whenever there is a beep pending. IMHO this is much more complex than my patch. If you don't like using new CYGWIN option I can make it registry value but I think that that is still more complex than this patch.
Vaclav Haisman
