Re: Squid CygWin enhancement

--- Original Message -----
From: "Guido Serassio" <serassio@libero.it>
To: <squid-dev@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Squid CygWin enhancement

> HI Robert,
>
> Il 00.25 27/04/2001 Robert Collins ha scritto:
>
> >If squid if compiled with cygwin support it links to cygwin1.dll.
Thus
> >you need cygwin.
>
> I have already verified that a CygWin program needs only cygwin1.dll
to
> run, so it enough copy it on system/system32 directory. My Windows
2000
> squid test platform don't have CygWin installed on it.
> In squid.conf I changed the /usr/local/squid reference to c:/squid,
and all
> works fine. Please note the use of "/" instead "\", it's an internal
WIN32
> feature working fine on MS Visual C++ too.

Cygwin _is_ cygwin1.dll. (That's all cygwin is - it's a
libc/libm/libpthread for win32). The rest of the tools and so on are
just a distribution.

Suggestion: put cygwin1.dll in x:\cygwin\bin - for compatability should
you ever decide to add more of cygwin to the machine. (cygwin uses
global shared memory, which means that multiple cygwin1.dll's work about
as well as a fish out of water (80+% of the problems reported with
cygwin are because of copies in system32 :] ).

> >I'm suggesting that if you're on cygwin, try to parse
> >/etc/resolve.conf - but dont require it :]. There's no urgency on
this,
> >I just don't think it should be merged to HEAD without this.
>
> Looking at the dns-internal.c, I had an idea:
>
> What about add a idnsParseWIN32Registry function and move its code to
win32.c ?

dns_internal is the right place for dns code I think. we shouldn't just
lump all the win32 code in one place because it "win32 code". I.e.
socket code will go in a comm module, disk code goes in a fs module. And
so on.

What might make sense is a idnsParseWin32Registry function in
dns_internal.c. (Note: in the near future cygwin will probably generate
resolve.conf on the fly from the registry :] - but we'll still need your
code for future NT non-cygwin implementations.)

Rob

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Received on Fri Apr 27 2001 - 02:51:04 MDT