RE: Bug report [was FW: Freeze in perl script after cygwin upgrade 1.5.17 -> 1.5.18]

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Christopher Faylor
>Sent: 04 July 2005 19:30

> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:17:59PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> From: Christopher Faylor
>>> Sent: 04 July 2005 19:11
>> 
>>> The division of labor should be like this:
>>> 
>>> The reporter: ..
>> 
>> ... will send the following message to the mailing list:
>> 
>> " Cygwin, you sucK!  IT broKen, you fix it now!"
> 
> OTOH, by sending strace output, you can bask in the knowledge that
> you've done "something technical" and, so, therefore, are actually
> helping in a constructive way rather than just complaining.
> 
> You'll be even more helpful if you inspect the output and trim away all
> of the stuff you know is unneeded even though the whole reason you're
> sending the strace output is that you don't know cygwin well enough to
> fix the problem and so, therefore, your attempt to trim the output is
> likely to trim away useful bits...
> 
> cgf


  Even better, come up with a simple test case, and post it to the list, but
then, because it doesn't quite show the problem like you expected it to,
'adjust' the output from your shell as you cut'n'paste it into the email, to
make it more 'correct'.  I love that one!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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