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Re: cygwin 1.5.6 release notes - comments needed
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 02:01:31PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 14 23:35, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Corinna, Pierre, could you add some lines detailing your security
>> changes and, if needed, flesh out my descriptions of your changes?
>
>My changes are:
>
>- Drop using of statically sized buffers for ACLs and security descriptors.
> (Corinna Vinschen)
>
>- Accomodate GENERIC permission bits in ACLs (Corinna Vinschen)
>
>> - Implement mknod. (Christopher Faylor)
>
>Didn't you say you drop this one until FIFO's are working?
mkfifo != mknod.
>> - ** Corinna talk about passwd options here, please? ***
>
>- Implement new options for passwd(1):
> -c/-C User must not/may change password.
> -e/-E User's password never expires/expires according to aging rules.
> -p/-P Password not required/is required for user.
> (Corinna Vinschen)
>
>- Implement missing POSIX SEM calls sem_open, sem_close, sem_timedwait
> and sem_getvalue. (Corinna Vinschen)
Thanks.
cgf