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Re: [OT] polite response to a polite reponse...


On 09/23/2008, Barry Smith at SourceLink wrote:
> ... but running a simple user program should not crash it. That > > doesn't mean that there it is impossible for a simple user program > > to crash it but if Windows crashes, it's a serious Windows bug not > > a program bug.
That is just a fancy way of passing the buck.
A former president coined the phrase "The buck stops here."

There are certain extremes where this has to apply but adding work-arounds to Cygwin for other people's bugs just makes Cygwin fragile and bloated. In general the policy for Cygwin is to fix the problem at the source in any case possible. This holds true for any software whether it's free (as in beer and/or speech) or not. The first step in the process is very often to report the problem to the provider of the software. For this issue, that would mean reporting it to MS, which the OP in the other thread said he would do. It wouldn't hurt to follow-up on that, if you're game.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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