From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29223 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2010 21:12:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 29215 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Aug 2010 21:12:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 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, 15 Aug 2010 21:12:19 +0000 Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.internal [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D2C8225 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:12:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:12:18 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (user-0c6sber.cable.mindspring.com [24.110.45.219]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 050235E3E56; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:12:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C68582B.5030406@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:12:00 -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: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mkshortcut --allusers --smprograms References: <416096c60906291153l2d132977w397fb05f444bccae@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <416096c60906291153l2d132977w397fb05f444bccae@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-08/txt/msg00399.txt.bz2 On 6/29/2009 2:53 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > Shortcuts created by postinstall scripts using mkshortcut --allusers > --smprograms aren't readable for ordinary users, so all they get to > see in the start menu is a white dummy icon that doesn't do anything. > This affects both MinTTY and rxvt, at least with Cygwin 1.7 on Windows > 7. I guess the scripts could find out where the start menu is and > apply the necessary rights themselves, but it would make sense and be > much more convenient if mkshortcut did that. Andy, if you'd like to roll this change into a forward-port of your other, wideAPI/locale patch, that'd be great. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple