On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:37:38PM -0400, Pavel Ivanov scratched on the wall: > Wow!!!! Jim, you're asking to rewrite the whole code of cygwin. You > want all sorts of programs (like sed, awk, expr etc) to suddenly > become a part of one program and the code of bash to be rewritten from > scratch so that it never forks itself into new process but still > implements all features that it has (I don't even sure if it's > possible).
It's called BusyBox, and has been part of embedded Linux distributions for about 10 years. It's the main way you get things done in a stripped down environment with minimal process management. > Sorry, but that's not what cygwin is about. Well, that's true, but reconfiguring a large number of standard utilities to run this way would improve interactive performance with frequently used command line utilities. -j -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor." "I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string." --from Anathem by Neal Stephenson _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
