Re: backup privileges [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1]

2006-11-30 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 30 09:50, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Remember how much effort was spent trying to fix Cygwin to work for > > unprivileged users? Do you now, all of a sudden, want to break expected > > behavior for privileged users? > > I'm sorry but I really d

Re: backup privileges [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1]

2006-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 16:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 30 09:50, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Remember how much effort was spent trying to fix Cygwin to work for > > unprivileged users? Do you now, all of a sudden, want to break expected > > behavior for privileged users? > > I'm sorry but I really don't

Re: backup privileges [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1]

2006-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 09:50, Igor Peshansky wrote: > Remember how much effort was spent trying to fix Cygwin to work for > unprivileged users? Do you now, all of a sudden, want to break expected > behavior for privileged users? I'm sorry but I really don't understand the problem. Cygwin allows administrator

Re: backup privileges [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1]

2006-11-30 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 29 21:53, Eric Blake wrote: > [snip] > > But it does beg the question of whether it should be configurable > > whether a user WANTS to use backup privileges to bypass ACLs. It > > seems like cygwin is very often installed by users that happen

Re: backup privileges [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1]

2006-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 29 21:53, Eric Blake wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > - Always open files with backup/restore intent to emulate real "root" > > access. Fix access(2) accordingly. (corinna) > > This change has some interesting effects, and I think you did the right thing > by making ac

backup privileges [was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1]

2006-11-29 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities > available for download. This is a bug fix release. Only one minor > functional change has been made since 1.5.21-1. As usual, a list > of what has changed is below. > ... > > - Alwa

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1

2006-11-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Champ Mendis wrote: I reinstalled the above Cygwin version. But when I run the file it behaves as follow, $ ./sensor /sensor: ./sensor: cannot execute binary file [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/simsens-5.0 $ rm sensor <-REMOVED AS ADVISED BEFOFRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/simsens-5.0 $ ./sensor [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1

2006-11-15 Thread Champ Mendis
Hi, - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:12 PM Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1 I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. This

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1

2006-11-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. This is a bug fix release. Only one minor functional change has been made since 1.5.21-1. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" lin