On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jul 22 23:32, Darren Tucker wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > Hmm. If that only affects Cygwin, and if defines.h is not synced anyway,
>> > what about getting rid of the configure stuff entirely?
>> >
>> > Tested counterproposal:
I've committed this.
I'll look at the other changes after the release.
[...]
> As has been discussed more than once on this list, Cygwin^WWindows isn't
> the only OS allowing more than a single administrativ account.
> Alternatively the system supports fine-grained account-based permissions
> or per-executable capabilities.
Agreed, capabilities is what I was thinking of when I replied.
[...]
> Checking for uid 0 only makes limited sense, and only on very
> traditional UNIX systems.
In its defense, I suspect that's all it ran on at the time it was written.
Thanks.
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