From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2523 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2011 20:36:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 32594 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Feb 2011 20:35:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:35:49 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 714982CAB64; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:35:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:36:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Preremove/postinstall scripts fail with snapshot installed Message-ID: <20110213203544.GA14998@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <4D55A88E.3090301@cornell.edu> <20110212142555.GB5682@calimero.vinschen.de> <4D56A002.2090707@cornell.edu> <4D56A7D5.6010104@cornell.edu> <20110212164415.GB3264@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110212181224.GC3264@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110213162449.GA20855@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-q1/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 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