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I think it's because his indignant demand of the Cygwin team to fix this "bug" and make it work for him. Basically it's the attitude that I know my way is the

by ww520 16y ago

I think it's because his indignant demand of the Cygwin team to fix this "bug" and make it work for him. Basically it's the attitude that I know my way is the right way, now fix the platform so that my program runs.

xpaulbettsx 16y ago
I don't see any demands in the original mail: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00504.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00504.html He questions whether it "should be fixed" in Cygwin, a perfectly reasonable request, and he fully admits that he isn't sure whether it's a problem in Cygwin or not.
- ww520 16y ago
  "Should be fixed" is a passive aggressive way to demand it to be fixed. His reference to Linus doing the same thing in kernel (not) sounds very much like a smack response. Also he claims he knows what he's doing since he has done the same thing in DOS so when it's clear that he has no clue of what's going on just irrates people.
  - tptacek 16y ago
    Instead of trying to walk "indignant demand" back to "passive aggressive way to demand" inch by inch, just concede that all the guy did was ask a question and make a case for why he thought Cygwin's behavior was broken. Nobody's saying Cygwin has to agree with him, but you've simply mischaracterized the start of the thread. My interpretation is that Korn was trying to be funny (and he succeeded), but as usual the peanut gallery ruined the joke.
silentbicycle 16y ago
Yeah, but blunt brevity and "go read X instead, you're going about it wrong" would have been better for everyone involved.
- maushu 16y ago
  You forget that the same day is not the same for everybody, Dave might just had a bad day that resulted in that response. We are just humans. Totally unrelated input might result in a change on the output.
  - silentbicycle 16y ago
    Very true, and very easy to forget when you're responding to a text box rather than in person.

by ww520 16y ago

xpaulbettsx 16y ago

I don't see any demands in the original mail: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00504.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00504.html He questions whether it "should be fixed" in Cygwin, a perfectly reasonable request, and he fully admits that he isn't sure whether it's a problem in Cygwin or not.

ww520 16y ago
"Should be fixed" is a passive aggressive way to demand it to be fixed. His reference to Linus doing the same thing in kernel (not) sounds very much like a smack response. Also he claims he knows what he's doing since he has done the same thing in DOS so when it's clear that he has no clue of what's going on just irrates people.
- tptacek 16y ago
  Instead of trying to walk "indignant demand" back to "passive aggressive way to demand" inch by inch, just concede that all the guy did was ask a question and make a case for why he thought Cygwin's behavior was broken. Nobody's saying Cygwin has to agree with him, but you've simply mischaracterized the start of the thread. My interpretation is that Korn was trying to be funny (and he succeeded), but as usual the peanut gallery ruined the joke.

silentbicycle 16y ago

Yeah, but blunt brevity and "go read X instead, you're going about it wrong" would have been better for everyone involved.

maushu 16y ago
You forget that the same day is not the same for everybody, Dave might just had a bad day that resulted in that response. We are just humans. Totally unrelated input might result in a change on the output.
- silentbicycle 16y ago
  Very true, and very easy to forget when you're responding to a text box rather than in person.