* How should I report a critical type of Cygwin bug?
@ 2014-02-26 8:10 Shaddy Baddah
2014-02-26 11:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Shaddy Baddah @ 2014-02-26 8:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hi,
Risking the wrath that I should just report the bug, I would like to
just get some advice on how to go about it.
I'm encountering a problem with a rather new Cygwin package/feature that
if reproducible, has serious consequence on the hosting Windows
platform.
My concern is that if I list the steps here, readers will blindly try
this (rather easily performed) action and break their computer.
Should I just whack on a disclaimer and report it?
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Shaddy
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* Re: How should I report a critical type of Cygwin bug?
2014-02-26 8:10 How should I report a critical type of Cygwin bug? Shaddy Baddah
@ 2014-02-26 11:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2014-02-26 11:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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On Feb 26 17:00, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Risking the wrath that I should just report the bug, I would like to
> just get some advice on how to go about it.
>
> I'm encountering a problem with a rather new Cygwin package/feature that
> if reproducible, has serious consequence on the hosting Windows
> platform.
>
> My concern is that if I list the steps here, readers will blindly try
> this (rather easily performed) action and break their computer.
Cygwin is a user space DLL. It cannot break the OS, unless you do
something really terrible like rm -rf in /cygdrive/c with admin rights,
but you can do the same with CMD. And we also don't access or try to
write UEFI variables, usually. Hmm, /proc/sys, maybe?
> Should I just whack on a disclaimer and report it?
Yes, please. Please see http://cygwin.com/problems.html. A simple
testcase would be cool.
Thanks,
Corinna
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Red Hat
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