On 13/09/2020 17:08, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On 13/09/2020 16:02, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2020-09-13 01:39, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote: >>> On 13/09/2020 07:13, Achim Gratz wrote: >>>> Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps writes: >>>>> Hmm, who decides (and how) what counts as a Linux distro? >>>> Something that is capable of and has actually done a license review. >>> Seems fair. >>>>> Either way, could anyone provide some insight as to whether bundling the >>>>> Cygwin DLL would allow Cygwin programs to access the virtual /dev and >>>>> /cygdrive paths? I have this all ready to be released for Windows, so >>>>> one way or another I'll need to make a bundle anyway for convenience. >>>> Yes, all the virtual fs are provided through the Cygwin DLL. >>> Excellent, thank you :) >>>>> It'd be great if it could make it into the official repos but I first >>>>> submitted this ITP around a month ago so I don't have high hopes as of >>>>> this point. >>>> You still haven't explained what it would be useful for. This >>>> bare-metal stuff isn't something I'd usually consider doing from within >>>> a userland compatibility layer running on Windows. >>> My apologies - I thought I had but that must be a false memory. This >>> module is a device information collector, and in Cygwin's case it makes >>> it easy for users of DDRescue-GUI to find the link between the Windows >>> drive letters and Cygwin paths. It also provides other information such >>> as make and model, but this is limited on Cygwin because some of the >>> more low-level device management utilities don't exist, probably due to >>> bits of missing API as explained to me by Corrina (at least I think it >>> was her). It behaves very similarly on macOS and Linux, except it just >>> needs to inform the user of device details instead of also relating to >>> drive letters/Windows names. >>> >>> This is basically just a dependency for DDRescue-GUI (a GUI I wrote for >>> GNU ddrescue), and I had interest on getting this running easily on >>> Windows, so I thought Cygwin would be the way to go for better >>> compatibility. You can find DDRescue-GUI here: >>> https://www.hamishmb.com/html/downloads.php?program_name=ddrescue-gui >>> and the user guide is available from the nav bar if you want more >>> information about it. >>> >>> Does that answer your question - hopefully I didn't miss the point. >> Package smartmontools has access to some low level disk I/O features when run >> elevated under an admin account. > Yes, I think you (or maybe Corinna) told me this before - getdevinfo > compiles this together with other information to try and get as complete > a picture as possible. That was a useful tip for sure. > > Hamish
NB: If GPLv2 is required instead of GPLv3, I will happily license it as GPLv2 for Cygwin. I imagine any properly open source license such as GPLv3 is okay though? Hamish
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