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Re: Patch to pass file descriptors
"Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> You may be able to find cygserver discussion in the
cygwin-developers
> archive.
Good hint :-) I'll go look.
> The bottom line is that I don't want to have to tell Red Hat's
customers
> to install a server component if they want to use cygwin. I also
don't
> want to have to tell every person who wants to release a standalone
> cygwin program that they have to copy around cygwin1.dll and
> cygserver.exe, finding some way to start cygserver automatically.
Got you: basically customers shouldn't be forced to use the setup
program but should be able to treat cygwin like any other DLL their
program might use. That wasn't a scenario I was considering and it's a
good point.
Thanks for the orientation. Now off to the archives.
// Conrad