Re: ACEs and ACLs

2024-03-20 Thread J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin
This is a somewhat belated reply to your emails concerning my troubles with ACLs.  It is belated because the environment which I attempt to manage via a single administrative account looking at all mounted file systems as if they were local to whichever workstation I happen to be working from

Fwd: [tz] Ubuntu drops old-style links

2024-03-20 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
On 2024-03-19 02:19, brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca wrote: On 2024-03-18 21:12, Matt Johnson-Pint via tz wrote: I just learned that Ubuntu Noble (24.04) decided to intentionally split the tzdata package.  Old-style links such as US/Eastern are no longer included by default, but are available

Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

2024-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Mar 20 12:39, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote: > Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > You have to create an application with an application manifest not > > supporting your OS. > > > > For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under > > Windows 8.1 before Windows 10

bmake 20240314-1

2024-03-20 Thread Christian Franke
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * bmake-20240314-1 * bmake-extras-20240314-1 * bmake-extras-python-20240314-1 bmake is a portable version of the NetBSD make(1) utility. It is similar to GNU make, even though the syntax for the advanced features supported in

Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

2024-03-20 Thread Bill Stewart via Cygwin
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM Christian Franke wrote: Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > > For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under > > Windows 8.1 before Windows 10 support was added to the Cygwin toolchain: > > the manifest linked to the Cygwin executable

Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

2024-03-20 Thread Christian Franke via Cygwin
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Mar 19 09:18, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:01 AM Richard Campbell wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:04 AM Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote: Can you please clarify the circumstances under which the RtlGetVersion function "may not