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
[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)?
>
> Yes, that sounds better. I don't use Cygwin, though, so
> I'm not qual
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)?
Yes, that sounds better. I don't use Cygwin, though, so
I'm not qualified to write that.
On 06/26/2012 05:49 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>/* The super-user can read and write any file, and execute any file
> that anyone can execute. */
> - if (euid == 0 && ((mode & X_OK) == 0
> -|| (stats.st_mode & (S_IXUSR | S_IXGRP | S_IXOTH
> + if (euid == ROOT_UID
>
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ChangeLog | 20
lib/euidaccess.c |7 +--
lib/pt_chown.c|6 --
lib/root-uid.h| 30 ++
lib/unlinkdir.c |3 ++-
lib/write-any-file.c |3 ++-
m4/mknod.m4
