Announce: ioperm-0.2.1 for cygwin released

[Max Bowsher]

Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:57:35PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
>>> This software adds support for ioperm() function to Cygwin. This
>>> support includes sys/io.h and sys/perm.h header files (not included
>>> in Cygwin by default) together with development and runtime
>>> libraries.
>>>
>>> News in this release:
>>> * Windows DDK is optional for compilation now
>>> * --prefix=/usr parameter for ./configure script is not mandatory
>>> now
>>>
>>> Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/ioperm/
>>
>> Is there some reason you're not proposing this as a standard cygwin
>> package?
>
> There are at least two reasons:
> 1. A device driver (ioperm.sys) is required for running ioperm with
> NT/2000/XP
> 2. Windows DDK is required for the driver compilation.
>
> If these drawbacks are acceptable for a standard cygwin package I
> could start ioperm integration with mainstream cygwin net
> distribution.

Personal opinion ONLY:
1. is annoying but probably acceptable if there is some way to install it.
2. is likely a problem. Are you aware that w32api has some ddk support now?
That might be a way around this problem.

Max.


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