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RE: GDB Ctrl-C Interrupt Fails WORKAROUND
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:08:04 +0100
- Subject: RE: GDB Ctrl-C Interrupt Fails WORKAROUND
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 16 June 2006 16:30, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:05:56PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 15 June 2006 22:29, Charli Li wrote:
>>>>> For example, build the loopdll.dll and runloop.exe from the following
>>>>> sources using the gcc and m$ compilers as indicated:
>>>>
>>>> Isn't the m'$' compiler you're using actually free? If so, the dollar
>>>> sign appears to be misplaced.
>>>
>>> Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition is free; all other editions are not.
>>> The only thing us Cygwin users use from MSVC++8 is cl.
>>
>> Wrong kind of free, though. It's free as in beer, not free as in
>> "here's the sources".
>
> Still the continued use of the '$' in Microsoft's name has gotten sort
> of old. Is it supposed to be funny? It can't possibly be funny since
> it's been used 8,397,423,921 times in usenet and in mailing lists.
>
> Is it supposed to be a condemnation of the fact that a corporation is in
> it for the money? Well, duh.
>
> Is it supposed to be a political commentary about the evilness of
> Microsoft? Sorry, but I don't see the "$" as a mark of the devil.
I don't know and I don't care - as far as I'm concerned, free beer[*] is a
Good Thing!
> I guess it's part of our usenet culture now but, like so many repetitive
> trends on the CygWin board, I'm sick of it. It seems to me, that the
> philsophy of CygWin should allow tolerance for all people and all
> corporations. Isn't CygWin supposed to promote peach, love, and
> umbrella stands? I am a long time CygWin user and I think that, if
> CygWin is to truly evolve, it should move beyond Microsoft platforms and
> possibly even consider running directly on LinUX rather than emulating
> it.
>
> Think about it. Then we could run rpm natively and use real inodes. It
> wouldn't loop endlessly when installing Windows Service Packs because there
> would be *no* windows service packs to install! It would be straight
> LinUX all of the way!
>
> I don't have time to implement this myself because I have to pee really
> bad right now but I think this deserves quite a bit of discussion.
Hey! I really need to pee too, and I've been waiting ages, and nobody's
done anything about it yet! When do you think you will have this pee patch
ready? I can't believe I've been waiting all this time for a piss and cygwin
still hasn't sorted it out yet! Don't you want to make cygwin even more
useful for your customers?
cheers,
DaveK
[*] - Obviously this excludes budweiser et al. (see archives for full details)
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