Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 15 21:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 15 09:20, Eric Blake wrote: > > According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/14/2006 8:26 AM: > > > http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1 > > > > Oh. My. Well, as I maintain coreutils, and don't have access to Vista,

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-15 Thread Benjamin Madore
On Thu, December 14, 2006 10:19 pm, Charles Wilson said: > You have GOT to be kidding me? "Security" based on the name of a file? > That's...that's... > > Oh heck. > > No more than I would expect from Bill "You'll never need more than 640K > RAM" Gates. > > -- > Chuck Yeah, a whole operating s

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 15 09:20, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/14/2006 8:26 AM: > > http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1 > > Oh. My. Well, as I maintain coreutils, and don't have access to Vista, I > will have a very tough time testing any "worka

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/14/2006 8:26 AM: > Hi, > > just FYI, I'd like to point you to this thread on the Microsoft Windows > Vista developer forum: > > http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1 Oh. My.

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 22:19, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1 > > >Btw., how many packages actually have executables with the string > >"instal", "update" and "setup" in them? > > You have GOT to be kidding me?

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 10:15, Brian Dessent wrote: > Shankar Unni wrote: > > > > The manifest route is pretty simple, you just create an .xml file, then > > > refer to it in a resource file, and then windres does the rest. > > > > But in cases like this, we really *don't* want to run with elevated > > privile

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 14 18:38, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:14:44AM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: > >Does the same result occur when you run 'install' from the command > >terminal in Vista, after adding Cygwin's 'bin' location to PATH? > > Isn't that *exactly* what she is talking about?

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 15 09:14, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Does the same result occur when you run 'install' from the command > terminal in Vista, after adding Cygwin's 'bin' location to PATH? I though that's clear from the aforementioned thread in the Microsoft forum. Cmd.exe behaves as the Explor

RE: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
DePriest, Jason R. wrote on Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:30 PM: > On 12/14/06, Brian Dessent wrote: [snip] >> I thought the idea here was that the manifest tells the system >> explicitly "I am not an installer and I do not need to be run with >> elevated privileges", i.e. treat it like a normal

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1 Btw., how many packages actually have executables with the string "instal", "update" and "setup" in them? You have GOT to be kidding me? "Security" based on the name of a file? That's...

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:14:44AM +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: >Does the same result occur when you run 'install' from the command >terminal in Vista, after adding Cygwin's 'bin' location to PATH? Isn't that *exactly* what she is talking about? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-14 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Corinna, Does the same result occur when you run 'install' from the command terminal in Vista, after adding Cygwin's 'bin' location to PATH? Hugh On 15/12/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how many packages actually have executables with the string "instal", "update" and "setu

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 12/14/06, Brian Dessent wrote: Shankar Unni wrote: > > The manifest route is pretty simple, you just create an .xml file, then > > refer to it in a resource file, and then windres does the rest. > > But in cases like this, we really *don't* want to run with elevated > privileges - if I'm "in

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Shankar Unni wrote: > > The manifest route is pretty simple, you just create an .xml file, then > > refer to it in a resource file, and then windres does the rest. > > But in cases like this, we really *don't* want to run with elevated > privileges - if I'm "install"ing to /tmp, I definitely don'

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-14 Thread Shankar Unni
Brian Dessent wrote: The manifest route is pretty simple, you just create an .xml file, then refer to it in a resource file, and then windres does the rest. But in cases like this, we really *don't* want to run with elevated privileges - if I'm "install"ing to /tmp, I definitely don't want

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > just FYI, I'd like to point you to this thread on the Microsoft Windows > Vista developer forum: > > http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1 > > I didn't trust my eyes when I realized what happens. The above thread > is the result.

RE: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

2006-12-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 December 2006 15:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > just FYI, I'd like to point you to this thread on the Microsoft Windows > Vista developer forum: > > http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1 LOLs at microsfot. > I didn't trust my eyes when I