RE: /etc/passwd "unused_by_nt/2000/xp" field breaks non-interactive r sh

y this has nothing to do with Cygwin, and is how rshd/ssld are implemented, obviously for security. Regards, Steven -Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@;rfk.com] Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 1:45 AM To: Reddie, Steven; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /

/etc/passwd "unused_by_nt/2000/xp" field breaks non-interactive rsh

I've setup the latest Cygwin on a new machine and can do interactive rsh but not non-interactive. I found that I can get non-interactive rsh to work if I remove the "unused_by_nt/2000/xp" string from /etc/passwd for the user that I wish to rsh in as. I'm sure that the problem must be elsewhere, b

memory leak? (was: 1.3.9: "fork: Permission denied" (Windows 2000))

There's a memory leak, but I can't work out what is causing it. None of the processes in Task Manager own up to it, so does that mean it's the OS? I have been able to reproduce this leak using the scripts included below. mkfiles creates 1000 files. rmfiles removes those 1000 files. Executing m

1.3.9: "fork: Permission denied" (Windows 2000)

Just a quick question to find out if this bug is already known. I don't know if it's the make bug mentioned in the FAQ. I can't easily supply a test case as it only seems to happen after building hundreds of thousands of lines of source code. Our build system consists of recusive makes includin