Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 15 18:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 15 18:15, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > It's unfortunate that this may break more installations, but it's also a > > > security improvment. The group permissions reflect the fact that the > > > permissions granted to your ss

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 15 18:15, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > It's unfortunate that this may break more installations, but it's also a > > security improvment. The group permissions reflect the fact that the > > permissions granted to your ssh key are too open. Fortunately the new > > -b opt

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-15 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > It's unfortunate that this may break more installations, but it's also a > security improvment. The group permissions reflect the fact that the > permissions granted to your ssh key are too open. Fortunately the new > -b option to setfacl allows a quick fix. Speaking o

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 12 09:35, Ken Brown wrote: > On 12/12/2014 8:49 AM, Michael DePaulo wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen > > wrote: > >>I finally released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin > >>release. The version number is 1.7.34-002. > > > >I *think* I am experiencing

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 12 23:42, Thomas Wolff wrote: > With cygwin-devel 1.7.34-002, the following test program (2 lines): > #define _BSD_SOURCE > #include > > produces this error: > In file included from test.c:2:0: > /usr/include/stdlib.h:258:23: error: expected string literal before > ‘__ASMNAME’ >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-12 Thread Thomas Wolff
With cygwin-devel 1.7.34-002, the following test program (2 lines): #define _BSD_SOURCE #include produces this error: In file included from test.c:2:0: /usr/include/stdlib.h:258:23: error: expected string literal before ‘__ASMNAME’ __asm__ (__ASMNAME ("__bsd_qsort_r"));

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-12 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/12/2014 8:49 AM, Michael DePaulo wrote: On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I finally released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. The version number is 1.7.34-002. I *think* I am experiencing a very bad regression. These are the Windows permi

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-12 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I finally released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin > release. The version number is 1.7.34-002. I *think* I am experiencing a very bad regression. These are the Windows permissions on my ~/.ssh/id_rsa file: C:\cygwin\hom

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-11 Thread Ray Donnelly
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 10, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Alexey Pavlov wrote: > >> Also we switch to use real /usr folder and just create virtual mount for >> /bin folder that needed for some programs. > > You’re fighting the prevailing trend in Unix/Linux OS design by

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-11 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 10, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Alexey Pavlov wrote: > Also we switch to use real /usr folder and just create virtual mount for /bin > folder that needed for some programs. You’re fighting the prevailing trend in Unix/Linux OS design by doing that. Solaris, Red Hat, and probably others also alia

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Alexey Pavlov
2014-12-10 19:01 GMT+03:00 Corinna Vinschen: > On Dec 10 08:36, Alexey Pavlov wrote: >> [...] >> Our changes to Cygwin runtime as we talk in the past are not >> acceptable to Cygwin upstream because have a different philosophy and >> have break some posix features. About half a year ago we talk abo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 10 08:36, Alexey Pavlov wrote: > [...] > Our changes to Cygwin runtime as we talk in the past are not > acceptable to Cygwin upstream because have a different philosophy and > have break some posix features. About half a year ago we talk about > how integrate MSYS functionality into Cygwin u

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 10 17:47, JonY wrote: > On 12/10/2014 07:28, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> How nice. We have all the work and they simple grab it and don't give > >> anything back to their upstream project. > > > > ...the *Dark* side of free (GPL?) software... I guess.. > > > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 15:05, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > > On Dec 8 15:14, Warren Young wrote: > >> On Dec 6, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen > >> wrote: > >> > >>> - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows > >> > >> don

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 17:18, Michael DePaulo wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > For your convenience I wrote new documentation. Since this is a TEST > > prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet. > > Rather have a look at > > > > https://cygw

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-10 Thread JonY
On 12/10/2014 07:28, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> How nice. We have all the work and they simple grab it and don't give >> anything back to their upstream project. > > ...the *Dark* side of free (GPL?) software... I guess.. > No, this is exactly how GPL is supposed to wor

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-09 Thread Alexey Pavlov
2014-12-10 2:28 GMT+03:00 Angelo Graziosi <>: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> How nice. We have all the work and they simple grab it and don't give >> anything back to their upstream project. > > > ...the *Dark* side of free (GPL?) software... I guess.. > > In any case, you could always *grab* the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-09 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: How nice. We have all the work and they simple grab it and don't give anything back to their upstream project. ...the *Dark* side of free (GPL?) software... I guess.. In any case, you could always *grab* their "pacman" manager.. Besides being very appealing, it would

Re: TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-09 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > For your convenience I wrote new documentation. Since this is a TEST > prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet. > Rather have a look at > > https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ntsec.html > > If you read it (whic

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-09 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 9, 2014, at 3:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 8 15:14, Warren Young wrote: >> On Dec 6, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen >> wrote: >> >>> - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows >> >> don’t use AD here, and /etc/passwd suffices >> for my purpose

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-09 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! >> - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows > This is huge, Corinna! > It must have been a lot of work, and while I personally will not benefit > much from this — don’t use AD here, and /etc/passwd suffices for my purposes > — it’s one of thos

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 8 15:14, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 6, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > > - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows > > This is huge, Corinna! > > It must have been a lot of work, and while I personally will not > benefit much from this — do

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-08 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 6, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > - Cygwin can now generate passwd/group entries directly from Windows This is huge, Corinna! It must have been a lot of work, and while I personally will not benefit much from this — don’t use AD here, and /etc/passwd suffices for my purpos

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 7 15:59, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > I finally released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin > > release. The version number is 1.7.34-002. > > I just installed both 32- and 64-bit version on top of my existing > (normal) release. The 64-bit one

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 7 12:21, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Ciao Corinna, > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >The new nsswitch.conf settings > > maybe I am wrong.. but shouldn't these new test release come with a default > /etc/nsswitch.conf file? a file which is installed/updated if it does not > exist/unchanged.. Th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-07 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Corinna Vinschen writes: > I finally released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin > release. The version number is 1.7.34-002. I just installed both 32- and 64-bit version on top of my existing (normal) release. The 64-bit one has a two-line (passwd=group=db) nsswitch.conf left over

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-07 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ciao Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The new nsswitch.conf settings maybe I am wrong.. but shouldn't these new test release come with a default /etc/nsswitch.conf file? a file which is installed/updated if it does not exist/unchanged.. I have seen that MSYS2 *has* it... Ciao, Angelo. -

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002

2014-12-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I finally released another TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. The version number is 1.7.34-002. The big changes compared to 1.7.34-001, apart from bugfixes and a new API (qsort_r), are the following: - The new nsswitch.conf settings "db_home", "db_sh