From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Cygwin@Sourceware. Cygnus. Com" Subject: FW: Description of the new 'ntsec' feature Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:21:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 1999-08/msg00397.html > Jim & Jenn Dumser wrote: > > [...] > > It would help to know exactly when these features were added to the > > snapshots. I grabbed 990815 since it was the latest, but many programs > > (vim, etc.) just core dump with it. (I'm running NT4 SP5.) > > [...] > > It's part of the snapshots since 25-May. If you think that the ntsec > feature is the reason for the core dumps you have two choices: > > - Send me an strace > - set CYGWIN=nontsec In my hands NTSEC had been very annoying. I get all the time those pinfo_proc kill at 1000 blah blah. I did not understand the philosophy behind NTSEC. Cygwin is a development tool not a multiuser UNIX login system, thus I am not sure implementing all the UNIX traditional security features would be helpfull for development tools. Suhaib > > I'm using ntsec since I begun to develop it (since mid of January) and > I'm using vim, too. I don't have any core dump with it. This should not > imply, that I believe, ntsec is error free! Moreover, ntsec is a widely > discussable feature and it will not be useful for everyone. > > Regards, > Corinna > > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Cygwin@Sourceware. Cygnus. Com" Subject: FW: Description of the new 'ntsec' feature Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 1999-08n/msg00397.html Message-ID: <19990831234900.l891Os3hFI7Tx96T_AOaFDyfqT9Y7Hjn96dBAasUp3w@z> > Jim & Jenn Dumser wrote: > > [...] > > It would help to know exactly when these features were added to the > > snapshots. I grabbed 990815 since it was the latest, but many programs > > (vim, etc.) just core dump with it. (I'm running NT4 SP5.) > > [...] > > It's part of the snapshots since 25-May. If you think that the ntsec > feature is the reason for the core dumps you have two choices: > > - Send me an strace > - set CYGWIN=nontsec In my hands NTSEC had been very annoying. I get all the time those pinfo_proc kill at 1000 blah blah. I did not understand the philosophy behind NTSEC. Cygwin is a development tool not a multiuser UNIX login system, thus I am not sure implementing all the UNIX traditional security features would be helpfull for development tools. Suhaib > > I'm using ntsec since I begun to develop it (since mid of January) and > I'm using vim, too. I don't have any core dump with it. This should not > imply, that I believe, ntsec is error free! Moreover, ntsec is a widely > discussable feature and it will not be useful for everyone. > > Regards, > Corinna > > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com