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Re: [PATCH] add getconf(1)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:04:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] add getconf(1)
- References: <1311042021.7348.26.camel@YAAKOV04> <20110719074343.GA15263@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
Hi Yaakov,
On Jul 19 09:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 18 21:20, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > This patch adds getconf(1) as required by POSIX:
>
> This looks good. I'm just wondering... on one hand the code seems to
> have nothing Cygwin-specifc and could be packed as an external package
> like any other POSIX tool, on the other hand I can see how it belongs to
> the Cygwin utils given that getconf on Linux is part of glibc. I'm
> inclined to stick it into utils for the latter reason. Chris? What's
> your stance?
what I didn't realize at the time was the fact that you didn't provide a
documentation patch, too. My latest patch to utils.sgml adds a short
description for the getconf tool. It's rather tight-lipped, so I'd
appreciate if you could have a look and, perhaps, improve the text.
Thanks,
Corinna
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