Cygdaemon - planning

[Earnie Boyd]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:09:57AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:17:54AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Do we want this?  Wouldn't it be better to have a separate export library
>>>>for the functions only available with cygserver?
>>>
>>>
>>>In this scenario, we have always gone with "what does UNIX do?"  I think it
>>>is pretty likely that the main users of this code will be existing programs
>>>which expect not to have to look in other libraries to find Sys V shm and
>>>semaphores.  So, putting the exports in some other library will result in
>>>configury changes for existing programs which is something that cygwin
>>>tries to avoid.
>>
>>So, there needs to be a method to detect the presence of cygserver 
>>executing or not from the cygwin dll and set an error of ENOSYS if not?
> 
> 
> Right.  That's what would happen.
> 

So, if the package configury sets HAVE_FUNCTION_FOO when the system says 
ENOSYS the package configury is broken and needs fixed anyway.

And as Larry points out, packages that require cygserver will be marked 
with the appropriate dependency.

Earnie.