Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks

2017-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Altman
When Developer mode is enabled the elevation requirement for symlink creation is disabled: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/#DXz6icKZOkEozgYR.97 This was necessary for symlink creation within WSL to work. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signatu

Re: Use a default path in exec*p*() if PATH is unset?

2017-04-12 Thread cyg Simple
On 4/12/2017 12:41 PM, Christian Franke wrote: > cyg Simple wrote: >> ... >> But I don't believe that env --ignore-environment should be using execvp >> and should be using execv instead. That is for the upstream coreutils >> team to decide though. > > Possibly not, as it would also require to ch

Re: Use a default path in exec*p*() if PATH is unset?

2017-04-12 Thread Christian Franke
cyg Simple wrote: ... But I don't believe that env --ignore-environment should be using execvp and should be using execv instead. That is for the upstream coreutils team to decide though. Possibly not, as it would also require to check whether PATH is set later in the command line. Always u

Re: Use a default path in exec*p*() if PATH is unset?

2017-04-12 Thread cyg Simple
On 4/11/2017 3:02 PM, Christian Franke wrote: > cyg Simple wrote: >> >>-i, --ignore-environment start with an empty environment >> >> A relative use of the executable will not be found if the environment is >> empty. > > Not necessarily (see Linux, *BSD, ...). POSIX says this is > "implementa

Re: man page of CYGPORT(1) has an old content. should be updated.

2017-04-12 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-04-11 22:25, dodo . wrote: > Hello, > > I report one thing about manpage for cygport. > > Man page CYGPORT(1) seems to show old content about 'all' COMMAND. > According to manpage CYGPORT(1), 'all' COMMMAND means 'run all of > the above, excluding finish.' > However 'download' COMMAND is