Re: [Ms-nfs41-client-devel] WinSG Re: ANN: NFSv4.1 filesystem client Windows driver binaries for Windows 10/11 for testing, 2024-05-28 ...

[Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 at 14:50, Roland Mainz via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 4:28 AM Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 28 May 2024 at 22:15, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
> > <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Good evening!
> > >
> > > For your consideration - we need FEEDBACK, please!
> > >
> > > New is support running it as service (sc start
> > > ms-nfs41-client-service), setgid()/newgrp support (with a new winsg
> > > utility to run Windows applications with different primary group),
> > > 32bit kernel support, ACL+UNC path (cd //host@port/path1/path2 work in
> > > bash and ksh93)+chgrp+nfs:// support, and the NFS server no longer
> > > needs the "insecure" export switch.
> >
> > The WinSG utility is actually cool, because it can be used like a
> > normal Windows utility, and brings support for using multiple groups
> > to native Windows.
> >
> > Just a couple of ideas:
> > - Native Windows doesn't have an easy way to list group memberships
> > for the current user, so a WinSG -l to list available groups would be
> > good
>
> Done, I used -L (instead of -l) to avoid colliding with other
> newgrp(1) implementations (see
> https://github.com/kofemann/ms-nfs41-client/commit/65cec8f29cda6b8f4a1446203f6ab1cb988496ad?diff=unified&w=1).
>
> But in general I think Linux, Solaris/Illumos and Cygwin should
> standatise sg(1) with features like "-c cmdline" (like $ bash -c
> cmdline #) and -L (list groups suitable for -g), and make "-g
> groupname" mandatory.
>

Cool.

Are you going to make new binaries soon?

Dan
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Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd