csih (cygwin-service-installation-helper) provides a library of shell functions that can be used by other cygwin packages that provide servers and daemons. It can assist in various service installation tasks, such as:
* identifying the underlying Windows OS * detecting whether a "privileged user" exists and what its name is (that is, a user account with enhanced privileges necessary for some services) * creating a privileged user if one doesn't already exist (assuming the caller has permissions to create new users) * creating "normal" users * obtaining the (localized) name of well known accounts (Guest, Administrator) It is currently used by inetutils(iu-config, syslogd-config), openssh (ssh-host-config, ssh-user-config), sspi(sspi-config), sysvinit(init-config), and various others. csih should not be used directly; instead, config scripts like the ones mentioned above should 'source' the csih script, and then use the functions provided. CHANGES (since 0.9.6) ======================== o winProductName: Better support for Windows Server 2012 variants. o getVolInfo: Adapt to new w32api; avoid ddk. o csih: Renamed csih_is_exactly_windows8server to csih_is_exactly_server2012. o csih: Added csih_cygwin_is_64bit. o Support cross-compilation; support cygwin64. o Use mingw64 toolchains by default for "native" executables. -- Charles Wilson volunteer csih maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- 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