From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2566 invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2013 13:07:55 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 2466 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jun 2013 13:07:48 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mail-qc0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-qc0-f175.google.com) (209.85.216.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:07:47 +0000 Received: by mail-qc0-f175.google.com with SMTP id k14so3664118qcv.20 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:07:45 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.49.59.228 with SMTP id c4mr9255150qer.15.1371733665648; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.129.165 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:07:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51C213B4.1030503@cwilson.fastmail.fm> References: <51C0B08E.8080900@etr-usa.com> <51C0D956.4090905@etr-usa.com> <20130619020234.GA3669@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <51C1EAA3.6040307@etr-usa.com> <20130619174514.GA6071@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <51C213B4.1030503@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:12:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin From: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2013-06/txt/msg00531.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > > I assume that, eventually and as-needed, a *small* number of additional > "hooks" could be added to other code paths than exec/spawn/etc -- such as > the aforementioned uname(3) thing. (One of the "deltas" between cygwin and > msys was msys used a really stupid ownership/permission model -- pretend > current user owns everything; check the DOS R/O bit for +w; check the file > extension for +x; -- but this can be approximated with existing $CYGWIN > entries or mount options. I think. So reimplementing that "feature" of MSYS > would not require any additional hooks). IIRC that "stupid ownership/permission model" was a part of the original Cygwin 1.3 and was not modified. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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