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Re: Mo Dejong's install problems
> >One way is to create a tiny Cygwin app that is always running, and that
> >creates that shareable area that all Cygwin processes attach to. Sort of
> >a 'init' process. If it's dead, the next Cygwin DLL load will start it
> >again.
>
> Maybe we ought to install inetd by default. Kill two or three birds with
> one stone...
>
BTW, a two or three years ago I ported linux's init to cygwin. It worked,
but was forgotten... Along with running /etc/rc to start inetd etc, I had
several getty running to accept a modem incoming calls:-)
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Piscataway, NJ