[Fwd: Cygwin/XFree86 patch in XFree86 Bugzilla] Earle - This is for you

[Earle F. Philhower III]

Hello Harold, and a very belated congratulations!  I've been out of
the country for a few weeks and reading email was not one of my
prerogatives...

At 03:09 PM 7/9/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Does your patch fail gracefully if run on non-NT-based OSes?
>If so, I will give my go-ahead.  If not, please modify it so that it
>exits if not running on Windows NT-based OSes.

Yes, it dynamically queries for the existence of a DLL and then the
requisite function calls inside.  If these fail it just returns a
dummy value (1.0) for the load.  Safe to compile and run under any
Windoze OS.


>Thanks,
>
>Harold
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Cygwin/XFree86  patch in XFree86 Bugzilla
>Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:21:08 +0200
>From: Egbert Eich
>To: Harold L Hunt II
>
>Hi Harold,
>
>there is a patch in the XFree86 bugzilla
>
>http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=305
>
>adding support for Windows NT like OSes to xload. I assume that
>this will not work on non-NT-like Windows systems as the required
>performance counters are not available there.
>I would like to commit this code to the XFree86 CVS but I would
>like to get an opinion form somebody on the Cygwin team.
>If you would rather keep this code in your repository and merge
>it at some later time please let me know.
>
>Cheers,
>         Egbert.
>
>
>

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