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Re: outstanding issues blocking new release?
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: outstanding issues blocking new release?
- From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda at jaist dot ac dot jp>
- Date: 08 Aug 2001 00:05:20 +0900
- References: <20010806213235.A24499@redhat.com>
>>> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:32:35 -0400
>>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
> I can only think of three issues with cygwin that may need addressing.
>
> 1) The close_all_files problem that Egor found with exec'ed processes.
>
> 2) The problem with select() not detecting eof on pipes (Corinna really
> wants me to fix this).
>
> 3) The ntsec inheritance stuff.
n) Too large cygwin1.dll.
The size of cygwin1.dll suddenly became large when Egor added
the negative index support to ctype_.c in newlib. I guess the
augmented size of the table makes cygwin1.dll so large, but I
can't find the proper way to solve it.
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| AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
| HOKURIKU Center for Information Science
o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology