Cygdaemon - planning

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Jun 25 18:37:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:53:50PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>I have also changed things quite a lot. I've moved specific daemon code into a
>new toplevel `cygdaemon' directory and kept/renamed the interface code in the
>`cygwin' directory. Here's how things look locally on my branch
>
>  winsup/
>    ...
>    cygdaemon/
>      ipc-utils/  - a few command line utilities (still a work in progress)
>      ...
>    cygwin/
>      moved cygserver_shm.cc to cygdaemon/modules/shm.cc
>      ...
>
>If it's OK, could I start a branch for developement? After I've finished my work
>on libgen and submitted the dang patch, of course. :-)

What is the rationale for putting things in a winsup directory?  Can't cygdaemon
be in it's own sibling directory with winsup?

cgf



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