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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Preremove/postinstall scripts fail with snapshot installed
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110213203544.GA14998@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikq1g6DPGjyvdkmAe4R_DAa92cuU7J-RTXUZcYa@mail.gmail.com>

On Feb 13 17:43, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 13 February 2011 16:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > (*) As a side note, what strikes me as weird is the fact that nothing
> >    at all in the information about KB 2393802(**) points to a
> >    vulnerability related to the CWD and removable devices.  Somehow
> >    this change seems to be entirely unrelated to what the MS11-011
> >    security bulletin is about.  I also inspected all other security
> >    bulletins from this month, but to no avail.
> 
> If I were a conspiracy theorist I'd suspect a link with a recent
> discussion on a certain MSDN blog.

:)

For old times sake I re-read the comments in the blog and it's pretty
obvious that Raymond wasn't able to admit that his blog entry was not
overly sensible.  However, I don't think he's working in the dept which
works on the ntdll internals.  Isn't he in the shell team?


Corinna

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-13 20:36 UTC|newest]

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2011-02-13 17:43             ` Andy Koppe
2011-02-13 18:13               ` Charles Wilson
2011-02-13 20:36               ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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     [not found]                 ` <20110214092054.GB14998@calimero.vinschen.de>
     [not found]                   ` <20110214164128.GA29654@calimero.vinschen.de>
2011-02-14 20:31                     ` Christopher Faylor
2011-02-15 17:31                       ` Corinna Vinschen

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