On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:01:59AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Cygwin scans the passwd and group files to map sids
>to/from uid & gid. It does so even for the current user,
>although the relevant mappings are stored internally.
>This is inefficient and causes problems (e.g. gcc produces
>non e
Chris,
Cygwin scans the passwd and group files to map sids
to/from uid & gid. It does so even for the current user,
although the relevant mappings are stored internally.
This is inefficient and causes problems (e.g. gcc produces
non executable files) as soon as /etc/passwd is incomplete.
security
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Steve O wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:15:47PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > However, there are a couple of problems with this patch. For example,
> > > this makes bash run from a command prompt (or a shortcut)
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Steve O wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:15:47PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > However, there are a couple of problems with this patch. For example,
> > this makes bash run from a command prompt (or a shortcut) treat every
> > character as a ^D.
>
> So every characte
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:20:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Keep resubmitting on large patch until it is accepted.
>
> My time is limited right now so I may not be able to completely review
> this for a couple of weeks. I'm going to be on a business trip starting
> on Wednesday.
>
> So
