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Re: [PATCH]: cygwin_internal


On Jul  2 10:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  1 15:11, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 08:54:05PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >On Jul  1 09:58, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > >>The situation is that exim has the concept that some groups are
> > >>privileged and can have write access to the configuration file.  They
> > >>are normally initialized to hard values set at compile time.
> > >>
> > >>The Cygwin port of exim fakes things up so that the gid of Admins
> > >>(obtained from cygwin_internal) is put in the list of exim's privileged
> > >>groups.  The problem is that the gid obtained by cygwin_internal (from
> > >>the Admins sid) may not match the gid reported by stat, which is
> > >>obtained by cygpsid::get_id () from the same Admins sid.
> > >
> > >Ok, that makes sense.  It seems that cygserver can stumble over the
> > >same problem.
> > >
> > >Chris, is removing cygwin_regname ok with you?
> > 
> > Yep.
> 
> Please check in, Pierre.

I've checked in now.


Corinna

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