Potential Bug: Created files list owner/user exec until Windows reorders permissions

2024-05-23 Thread Ross Patterson via Cygwin
TL;DR: Weird permissions behavior in a Cygwin installation where permissions have been changed over time. I can't reproduce it on a clean install so that's how I'm working around it, but I thought it might be worth capturing what details I have in case it helps others or helps identify a bug. Afte

Re: BUG: Log on Scheduled Task invisible/empty window blocks input

2023-01-30 Thread Ross Patterson via Cygwin
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 3:48 PM Brian Inglis wrote: > > Best to hide that inside a script, rather than deal with mixing Windows and > shell quoting rules! Tested and confirmed to be working with other scheduled tasks that exit. > Services drop privileges to $USER privileges unelevated. What I'm

Re: BUG: Log on Scheduled Task invisible/empty window blocks input

2023-01-29 Thread Ross Patterson via Cygwin
lay, Kodi in my case. Ross On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:39 AM Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: > > On 2023-01-26 19:43, Ross Patterson via Cygwin wrote: > > TL;DR: I needed to run a Cygwin process at user log on with highest > > privileges to perform some operations that are not all

BUG: Log on Scheduled Task invisible/empty window blocks input

2023-01-26 Thread Ross Patterson via Cygwin
TL;DR: I needed to run a Cygwin process at user log on with highest privileges to perform some operations that are not allowed any other way without requiring a UAC prompt. This results in a window without any border, close button or any other decoration that is most often invisible/transparent, s