Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 21st Jan 2004 18:55 UTC
General Unix As many of you may remember I did a review of Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 (SFU) a few months ago. I remember being frustrated with that release because it seemed to me that all Microsoft did was throw something together just to be able to say "Hey look, we have this". I thought, since Microsoft released version 3.5, I would revisit and see what changes were done with it. I downloaded the beta version a while back and from the beta I was very impressed with the improvements that Microsoft made. Being a beta version it was buggy and some things just didnt quite work. I finally got the final version of the OpenBSD-based SFU 3.5 and this release makes dynamic leaps and bounds over previous releases of this software package. I am glad to see a lot more work was put into this release.
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Re: SFU / Cygwin
by Roberto J. Dohnert on Wed 21st Jan 2004 19:23 UTC

" I think he meant that a crash within Cygwin can potentially bring down all of Cygwin, not the entire system. But it's hard to say, I've never had Cygwin fail on me that way, but I only use its tools and rarely compile code with it. "

Sorry I should have been more precise. That is exactly what I meant. With Cygwin when compiling or developing code if you have a crash inside of CYGWIN, it Will bring down CYGWIN, not the entire system. Sorry for the confusion and Cygwin has failed on me a couple of times, as I had stated they were some curses apps I did inside of Cygwin and SFU and it seemed to me that Cygwin would crash if it didnt like something. SFU would just shut down the process more like a true UNIX environment would.