1.5.18: ruby warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin, mode 040777

Ruby (on all Unixes, including Cygwin) warns if you try to run an external program and your $PATH contains a world-writable directory. It doesn't just check the directories on $PATH: it checks each of their parents, too, because if /usr/local (say) is world-writeable, /usr/local/bin is subverted

RE: 1.5.18: ruby warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin, mode 040777

ot; check: sh-3.00$ chmod o+w /cygdrive/c sh-3.00$ ls -ld /cygdrive/c drwxrwxrwx+ 35 Administrators root 12288 Jan 3 19:20 /cygdrive/c sh-3.00$ ruby-win32 -e 'system("echo")' ECHO is on. but that sounds like a bad idea. P.S. in /usr/share/doc/base-files/README, "some of t

1.5.18: rxvt only accepts control keys from synergy

#x27;t being echoed. "stty sane\n", "stty -a\n", and "exit\n" all do nothing that "\n" doesn't. My synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) setup is such that i have a Linux box with a keyboard and mouse attached, running the server, and I run th

posix_openpt

ementation, you might be wondering why anyone would care about this trivial little function, other than a standards pedant? The answer is that although that implementation suffices on Cygwin and Linux, OSes such as Darwin require a complicated trawl through /dev looking for suitable candidates.) -- Elliott Hughes, BlueArc Engineering

1.5.24-2: zero-length write() and ioctl() on fd -1 cause crashes

http://software.jessies.org/terminator/ uses Cygwin to provide Windows support, and it's been most useful. i just thought i'd mention a couple of things that caused crashes in cygwin1.dll 1.5.24-2 where that might not have been Cygwin's intent (in both cases the application's skating on thi

Re: 1.5.24-2: zero-length write() and ioctl() on fd -1 cause crashes

On Wed, September 19, 2007 02:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 18 11:54, Elliott Hughes wrote: > >> http://software.jessies.org/terminator/ uses Cygwin to provide >> Windows support, and it's been most useful. i just thought i'd >> mention a couple of things

Re: 1.5.24-2: zero-length write() and ioctl() on fd -1 cause crashes

ZN11pthread_keyC2EPFvPvE but i don't know that isn't just an implementation detail. (certainly i get a lot of seemingly irrelevant matches if i search the web.) -- Elliott Hughes, http://www.jessies.org/~enh/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/