On Jul 23 19:58, Darren Tucker wrote: > 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. :) Which is quite a long time ago. The big problem with a patch replacing the uid == 0 checks is probably that it has to be accepted upstream... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer Red Hat
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