Re: [OT] polite response to rather rude reponse...

2008-09-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 03:11:28PM +, Robinson, Paul T (NonStop) wrote: >cgf wrote: >>We tend to react strongly to suggestions that Cygwin, which runs in user >>space, could cause something like a BSOD. Windows is far from a perfect >>OS but running a simple user program should not crash it.

RE: [OT] polite response to rather rude reponse...

2008-09-24 Thread Robinson, Paul T (NonStop)
>We tend to react strongly to suggestions that Cygwin, which runs in user >space, could cause something like a BSOD. Windows is far from a perfect >OS but running a simple user program should not crash it. That doesn't >mean that there it is impossible for a simple user program to crash it >but i

Re: [OT] polite response to rather rude reponse...

2008-09-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:57:32AM -0400, Barry Smith at SourceLink wrote: >Thank you for the tone. I'm trying to be helpful. Do you know what "FUD" stands for? You seem to think it's profanity. Spreading FUD is exactly what you are doing. >>Stop spreading FUD. There is no way a userland app l

Re: [OT] polite response to rather rude reponse...

2008-09-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Barry Smith at SourceLink wrote: > > Stop spreading FUD. There is no way a userland app like "run.exe" can > "cause" > > a blue screen. Only something running in kernel space -- like windows core > code, > > or certain device drivers -- can ever do that. > > Then I guess you don't read the cygwin

RE: [OT] polite response to rather rude reponse...

2008-09-23 Thread Barry Smith at SourceLink
First -- Thank you for the tone. I'm trying to be helpful. > Stop spreading FUD. There is no way a userland app like "run.exe" can "cause" > a blue screen. Only something running in kernel space -- like windows core code, > or certain device drivers -- can ever do that. Then I guess you don'