----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Timothy C Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:41 AM Subject: Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem
> Richard Anderson wrote: > > > So this is a know issue? Seems like non-standard behavior for a Windows app. > > All Windows apps that I know of catch the shutdown interrupt, clean up their > > data structures and exit gracefully. Is there some reason why Cygwin can't > > do this? > > Let's turn the question around. Are you interested in implementing and > submitting a patch to do this? I'm sure folks here would be willing to > discuss the viability of such functionality in the context of a patch > to implement it. > Timothy, your response might be interpreted as an attempt to discourage the user community from reporting problems or questioning apparent design flaws. I would think that a discussion group like this is the proper forum for submitting comments like my original e-mail. Any open-source software project that doesn't encourage comments from the user community is cutting itself off from a valuable source of feedback. Richard Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.richard-anderson.org www.raycosoft.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
