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RE: cygwin deadlocks due to lack of money
- From: "Brian Kelly" <brian dot m dot kelly at verizon dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:37:22 -0500
- Subject: RE: cygwin deadlocks due to lack of money
> You can donate money.
Fair enough.
How? I saw nothing on the cygwin website explaining how this could be
done. I'd want donations used explicitly for cygwin.
BK
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:33 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: 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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