From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25984 invoked by alias); 21 Jun 2002 15:30:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25964 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2002 15:30:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO srbexchange1.usasrb.ksc.nasa.gov) (156.68.4.170) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2002 15:30:47 -0000 Received: by srbexchange1.usasrb.ksc.nasa.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:24:26 -0400 Message-ID: <235A1071C79BD411851500508B9AFDD302C89AF5@srbexchange1.usasrb.ksc.nasa.gov> From: "Holland, Cristi L" To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Thanks Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:57:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg01100.txt.bz2 Thank you very much. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:29 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: HollanCL@usasrb.ksc.nasa.gov Subject: Re: Security Issues ? On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:58:36AM -0400, Holland, Cristi L wrote: >I evaluate products to become standards within our company (United Space >Alliance). I would like to know a few things about your product release: > >New Cygwin DLL 1.3.10 release > It's not a product, it's a project. Red Hat sells a product, however. You can get support with the product, too. >Are there any known security issues with this application? I'm sure there are all sorts of problems, yes: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC80 >Is this tool mainly used to migrate UNIX applications to a Windows >environment using UNIX type shell? The basic reason for Cygwin was to provide a method for Red Hat to build and distribute GNU compilers and the GNU debugger on Windows. I'd guess that the most popular reason for using it is to get the same free stuff on Windows that you can on Linux. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/