Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:09:39AM +0700, Alexander J. Herrmann wrote:
> >I was following this thread and time will tell. Something you're maybe
> >not aware of  that the cygwin1.dll soon will be distributed to thousends
> >of people who didn't even heard about cygwin. How come?
> >You may have heard about BOINC if not take a short look @
> >http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
> >It is used to run Linuxcode inside Windoze. For exaple the burp project
> >will use it to run povray on windoze. http://burp.boinc.dk (Don't waste
> >your time visiting the page it is offline today because a server
> >update). I can imagine a lot of problems resulting from this for people
> >using cygwin but donate there idle cpu time to number crunching when
> >there two different versions. Let's wait and C ...
>
> Any problems from this installation should be pretty easily solved by
> just blocking all email with the word "boinc" in it.

Hmm, "boinc"...  Isn't that the sound a bounced email makes?  Or was it
"plonk"?

> I'm willing to even make the filter more sophisticated than that, if
> necessary.

Don't bother.  If they don't know they're using Cygwin, they are not
likely to complain to the Cygwin list...  :-)
	Igor
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