Re: mktemp() fails on Wine 1.9.3 + Cygwin 2.5.0-0.2

2016-02-18 Thread Qian Hong
I wrote a test case demonstrate the problem at the Cygwin level. It is almost only one line: open("haha", O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR); // remember to unlink the file "haha" first On Windows + Cygwin, this program creates a file in 0600 mode: Administrator@short ~ $ stat haha

[ANNOUNCEMENT] xsel 1.2.0-2

2016-02-18 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * xsel-1.2.0-2 XSel is a command-line program for getting and setting the contents of the X selection. Normally this is only accessible by manually highlighting information and pasting it with the middle mouse button. -- Yaa

Re: Possible Security Hole in SSHD w/ CYGWIN?

2016-02-18 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I implemented and tested the idea and it seems to work. Note that the > underlying problem that we can't generate our own login session when using > method 1 persists. However, the new code should avoid spilling cyg_server > credential

[ANNOUNCEMENT] zim 0.65-1

2016-02-18 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * zim-0.65-1 Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, a

Re: Freeze package

2016-02-18 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/18/2016 10:13 AM, Byron Boulton wrote: On 2/18/2016 10:09 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 18/02/2016 15:34, Byron Boulton wrote: Is there a way to freeze a cygwin package to prevent upgrade? Byron only manually selecting skip for that specifically package. Why ? -- Problem reports:

Re: Freeze package

2016-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Byron Boulton zoho.com> writes: > Is there a way to freeze a cygwin package to prevent upgrade? This is a "if you have to ask, you shouldn't be doing it" type of question. Keeping that in mind, you can edit /etc/setup/installed.db and give any package a high enough version number so that setup t

Re: Freeze package

2016-02-18 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/18/2016 10:09 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 18/02/2016 15:34, Byron Boulton wrote: Is there a way to freeze a cygwin package to prevent upgrade? Byron only manually selecting skip for that specifically package. Why ? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Possible Security Hole in SSHD w/ CYGWIN?

2016-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 17 10:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 16 20:55, David Willis wrote: > > First let me say that I'm not too well-versed in coding and the ins and outs > > of how processes utilize credentials when they are spawned. However, the > > jist of it seems to be that if there are no credentials s

Re: Freeze package

2016-02-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 18/02/2016 15:34, Byron Boulton wrote: Is there a way to freeze a cygwin package to prevent upgrade? Byron only manually selecting skip for that specifically package. Why ? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.5.0-0.4

2016-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released a new Cygwin TEST version 2.5.0-0.4. Diffs to -0.3 are mainly bugfixes. What's new: --- - Switch to POSIX ACL API by default. - First implementation of pthread_barrier/pthread_barrierattr functions. New APIs: pthread_barrierattr_init, pthread

Freeze package

2016-02-18 Thread Byron Boulton
Is there a way to freeze a cygwin package to prevent upgrade? Byron -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Unknown+User and Unknown+Group when using ls via ssh

2016-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 17:17, James Whitwell wrote: > Hi, > > We’re having some trouble when logged in via ssh that we don’t have > when we log in directly (in our case RDP to the server, then start > bash from the Windows desktop). Our environment is Windows Server > 2008 R2 64-bit joined to a Samba domain,