These three scripts are too closely tied to automake internals to
be independently useful. In fact, automake would rather that
people did not mix the latest version of these scripts with older
versions of automake, as there is no effort being put into
maintaining backwards-compatibility when these
On 06/26/2012 04:32 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> I'm almost inclined not to do so, to force the affected
>> projects' broken setup to be fixed; i.e., if you are using Automake 1.11,
>> you let it install the correct 'missing' program, instead of forcing it
>> to use the 'mi
On 6/27/2012 9:58 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Those three files are under slightly
> different licenses, but are MIT/X-ish.
Oops, I should have scrolled down farther. Looks like winpriv.c was
further modified by Jari Aalto, and actually sports a GPLv2+ license
(and re-reading the license of the co
On 6/26/2012 8:18 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Broadening the question, does the cygwin community have advice on the
> best implementation of a function that returns true if the argument is a
> uid with full privileges (for example, if the uid is a member of the
> Administrator group, and can therefore
On 06/27/2012 12:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I guess, the most platform-independent approach would be to encapsulate
> the whole problem into a function requesting a specific capability along
> the lines of the POSIX 1.e definitions,
Some Gnulib code (e.g., unlinkdir.c) relies on the Solaris-
On Jun 26 18:18, Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding cygwin]
>
> On 06/26/2012 06:12 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > On 06/26/2012 05:01 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> Rather than forcing comparison to a single value, would it be better to
> >> have a function is_privileged_uid(euid)?
Do you really need this func
> From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 2:49 AM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: 10...@debbugs.gnu.org; bug-gnulib@gnu.org; 'Eric Blake'; 'Jim Meyering'
> Subject: Re: bug#10305: coreutils-8.14, "rm -r" fails with EBADF
>
> On 06/26/2012 09:38 AM, Joachim Schmit
