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Re: cygwin deadlocks due to broken select() when writing to pipes
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:59:17AM -0500, Brian Kelly wrote:
>Nevertheless, a few persistent reminders over a long period can have
>the same effect as a very large number of complaints in close
>proximity.
>
>There was once a great story in the Reader's Digest I think of some
>prisoner somewhere who decided that it'd be nice to have a new library
>in the prison. So he started writing lawmakers and telling them that
>he wanted a new library for the prison. Every day he mailed a couple
>of dozen hand written letters. For three of four years they were
>ignored. Then eventually he started getting VERY nasty responses
>telling him to bug off. Some even called the warden to get him to
>stop, but civil libertarians soon took interest in this and threatened
>to sue on his behalf if his mail was censured. Finally everyone was
>eventually worn down and around year ten, the legislature voted to fund
>the construction of his library - allocating close to TWO MILLION
>DOLLARS for the effort.
You can buy books. You can donate money. You can't cause a problem to
be solved just by incessantly complaining about it.
If this technique was uniformly useful then we'd have peace in the
Middle East and my son would have a telephone in his room.
cgf
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