Missing links

2014-07-24 Thread Fergus Daly
Just noticed the following missing links (and they are quite recent, presumably following some update or other). The last one listed seems particularly weird (redundant?). /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/crt1.o -> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/crt1.o /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/dl

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-24 Thread D. Boland
Hi Christopher, Thanks for your reply. Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:08:07PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: > >Greetings, D. Boland! > >> Cygwin security will be done for in the long run. Why not make the leap and > >> show MS admins/developers how it should be done? > > >

Bug executing "write" at Cygwin 1.7.31-2

2014-07-24 Thread jdzstz
Hello, I am preparing the new version 4.0.1 of Varnish. I am using a Windows 8.1 machine, with all hotfix installed. I have updated cygwin to 1.7.31-2 and launch Varnish package tests and some failed at "write" function. After some investigations downloading snapshots, I have verified that:

Re: Core dump on 32-bit Cygwin if program calls dlopen

2014-07-24 Thread Kai Tietz
2014-07-22 15:20 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 22 13:59, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> On 22/07/2014 09:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >On Jul 17 20:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >>On Jul 17 16:31, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> >>>On 17/07/2014 08:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> It's the libgcc DLL

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, D. Boland! > What I meant was that MS dicided to take away impersonation privileges from > the > SYSTEM user, without educating admins/developers about the new model or > alternatives > for SYSTEM. There's no "model", there's "rights" or "capabilities", or "privileges". > I searched

Re: Bug executing "write" at Cygwin 1.7.31-2

2014-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 14:22, jdzstz wrote: > Hello, > > I am preparing the new version 4.0.1 of Varnish. > I am using a Windows 8.1 machine, with all hotfix installed. > > I have updated cygwin to 1.7.31-2 and launch Varnish package tests and some > failed at "write" function. > > After some investigations

Re: Core dump on 32-bit Cygwin if program calls dlopen

2014-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 15:08, Kai Tietz wrote: > 2014-07-22 15:20 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 22 13:59, Jon TURNEY wrote: > >> On 22/07/2014 09:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> >On Jul 17 20:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> >>On Jul 17 16:31, Jon TURNEY wrote: > >> >>>On 17/07/2014 08:37, Corin

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 08:52, D. Boland wrote: > In your previous mail, you propose the following function to check for 'root' > privileges, which an upstream maintainer could put in his code: > > int > is_admin (uid_t uid) > { > #ifdef __CYGWIN__ > return [getgrouplist(uid, ...) contains group 544]; > #else

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: llvm/clang-3.4.2-1

2014-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 23 21:23, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >The default for native Windows applications is the small code model > >[...] > >Therefore my > >collegue Kai Tietz provided GCC with implementations of a medium and > >large code model > > Gulp! Seems to re-read the Borland C++/T

Re: Missing links

2014-07-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 24 09:22, Fergus Daly wrote: > Just noticed the following missing links (and they are quite recent, > presumably following some update or other). > The last one listed seems particularly weird (redundant?). > /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/crt1.o -> > /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/li

Emacs flyspell mode can't get process lock

2014-07-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
When opening a .txt file in Emacs, I have flyspell-mode enabled by default. This requires Emacs to start an aspell process. This has been failing regularly with the following error: 0 [sig] emacs 1160 get_proc_lock: Couldn't acquire sync_proc_subproc for(5,1), last 6, Win32 error 0 580

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-24 Thread D. Boland
Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > But this only introduces a new function which she has to put into multiple > > locations > > of the original code. So again, why not just modify the 'getuid' function in > > cygwin1.dll to return '0' if the current user is actually SYSTEM or one of > > the

Re: Emacs flyspell mode can't get process lock

2014-07-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/24/2014 4:56 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: When opening a .txt file in Emacs, I have flyspell-mode enabled by default. This requires Emacs to start an aspell process. This has been failing regularly with the following error: 0 [sig] emacs 1160 get_proc_lock: Couldn't acquire sync_pro

Re: Core dump on 32-bit Cygwin if program calls dlopen

2014-07-24 Thread JonY
On 7/24/2014 21:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > JonY, any chance we could get a gcc package with the new crtbegin.o > soon? Yes, I just uploaded gcc-4.8.3-2, I'll announce once it hits the mirrors. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 7/24/2014 5:42 PM, D. Boland wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> But be careful. Just because there are multiple users with admin >> permissions, that doesn't mean they all want their mail in the same >> mailbox for user 0... Things are actually worse than Corinna and others h