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Re: New program: cygtweak


On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:20:44PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:40:58PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> >Close enough.
>> >So, are we jump-starting the car, or replacing the battery? ;-)
>>
>> I'm just hoping for someone to come up with a creative name for
>> the car.
>
>"cygferrari"? ;-)
>
>Seriously, though...  "cygprogopts"?  "cygoverride"?  Come to think of it,
>"cygoptions" works pretty well, especially if we plan to add other
>functionality, such as setting heap_chunk_in_mb & co.  Are there other
>(undocumented) options that need this kind of control?  Do we want them
>all controlled from one script, or from a set of scripts?  Would it make
>sense for the script to act based on a name through which it was invoked,
>as well as command line parameters (and provide symlinks with these
>names)?

I didn't think of heap_chunk_in_mb but that makes sense, too.  AFAIK,
there aren't any other options.

>Also, should this script be in /usr/sbin instead?

Logically maybe, but from the standpoint of the cygwin community trying
to use it, I don't know.

cgf


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