RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

[Dave Korn]

On 12 October 2006 15:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Oct 12 16:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Oct 12 15:36, John Morrison wrote:
>>> On Thu, October 12, 2006 2:41 pm, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>> I wrote the script originally, and the initial version did use POSIX
>>>> paths.
>>> 
>>> I thought you did and was suprised to find it not using POSIX paths but
>>> assumed that there was a reason...
>>> 
>>>>  I've just re-read the early discussions, and found this:
>>>> 
>>>> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00033.html>.
>>> 
>>> and there it is.
>> 
>> So it looks like using mixed paths (cygpath -m) would be an easy way
>> out of this for now.
> 
> Naah, scratch that.  Creating a mount point for $SYSTEMROOT seems the
> better solution.

  Imagine the fun if someone decided to try and uninstall cygwin by running
"rm -rf /" :)


    cheers,
      DaveK
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 12 16:01, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 12 October 2006 15:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Naah, scratch that.  Creating a mount point for $SYSTEMROOT seems the
> > better solution.
> 
>   Imagine the fun if someone decided to try and uninstall cygwin by running
> "rm -rf /" :)

The user is either a non-privileged user, or (s)he will gain some
interesting new experience in what happens on Linux in the same
situation.


Corinna

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:16:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Oct 12 16:01, Dave Korn wrote:
>>On 12 October 2006 15:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>Naah, scratch that.  Creating a mount point for $SYSTEMROOT seems the
>>>better solution.
>>
>>Imagine the fun if someone decided to try and uninstall cygwin by
>>running "rm -rf /" :)
>
>The user is either a non-privileged user, or (s)he will gain some
>interesting new experience in what happens on Linux in the same
>situation.

I wouldn't be against the concept of augmenting Cygwin to allow a
read-only mount.  If the systemroot was mounted read-only then
"rm -rf /" wouldn't work unless the user tried hard to work around
it.

As a meta-issue, I really think that people are getting a little too
quick on the TITTTL trigger.  There's nothing talkish about speculating
end-user issues.

cgf

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

[Dave Korn]

On 12 October 2006 16:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:


> 
> As a meta-issue, I really think that people are getting a little too
> quick on the TITTTL trigger.  There's nothing talkish about speculating
> end-user issues.

  The chickens made me do it!  Can't you hear them?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:33:21PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 12 October 2006 16:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>As a meta-issue, I really think that people are getting a little too
>>quick on the TITTTL trigger.  There's nothing talkish about speculating
>>end-user issues.
>
>The chickens made me do it! Can't you hear them?

Nice save.

cgf

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

[Igor Peshansky]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 12 October 2006 16:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > As a meta-issue, I really think that people are getting a little too
> > quick on the TITTTL trigger.  There's nothing talkish about
> > speculating end-user issues.
>
>   The chickens made me do it!  Can't you hear them?

I do what the chickens in my head tell me, eh?
	Igor
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

[Robert Pendell]

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Dave Korn wrote:
> On 12 October 2006 15:52, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 12 16:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Oct 12 15:36, John Morrison wrote:
>>>> On Thu, October 12, 2006 2:41 pm, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>>> I wrote the script originally, and the initial version did use POSIX
>>>>> paths.
>>>> I thought you did and was suprised to find it not using POSIX paths but
>>>> assumed that there was a reason...
>>>>
>>>>>  I've just re-read the early discussions, and found this:
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00033.html>.
>>>> and there it is.
>>> So it looks like using mixed paths (cygpath -m) would be an easy way
>>> out of this for now.
>> Naah, scratch that.  Creating a mount point for $SYSTEMROOT seems the
>> better solution.
> 
>   Imagine the fun if someone decided to try and uninstall cygwin by running
> "rm -rf /" :)
> 

LOL!  I can imagine that something like that will happen eventually.  My
very first computer had Win 3.1.  While working on it I typed "del *.*".
 I intended to do that but I did it in the wrong place.  Instead of
where I wanted to do it I accidentally did it in the root of the C
drive.  Luckily I knew enough about how the computer worked at that
point to know better then shut it off without restoring those files.

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