From: Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Preremove/postinstall scripts fail with snapshot installed
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D581F3B.5050401@cwilson.fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikq1g6DPGjyvdkmAe4R_DAa92cuU7J-RTXUZcYa@mail.gmail.com>
On 2/13/2011 12:43 PM, 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.
Wouldn't be the first time. Anybody still remember the old Microsoft
motto: "DOS isn't done 'til Lotus won't run"? Is it time for an update:
"Windows isn't done 'til cygwin won't run"?
--
Chuck
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2011-02-13 17:43 ` Andy Koppe
2011-02-13 18:13 ` Charles Wilson [this message]
2011-02-13 20:36 ` Corinna Vinschen
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2011-02-14 20:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-02-15 17:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
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