From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5861 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2011 18:13:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 5854 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Feb 2011 18:13:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:13:25 +0000 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBC3207BC for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:13:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:13:24 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (user-0c6se63.cable.mindspring.com [24.110.56.195]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AB888407D3E; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:13:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4D581F3B.5050401@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:13:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Talk Amongst Yourselves Subject: Re: Preremove/postinstall scripts fail with snapshot installed 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00012.txt.bz2 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