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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "Milscvaer" <millueradfa AT yahoo DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: A suggestion |
Date: | Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:33:25 +1100 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Milscvaer" <millueradfa AT yahoo DOT com> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 7:11 AM Subject: A suggestion > Hello, > > I greatly enjoy and apprieciate using the Cygwin > system. I find it to be an extremely useful and > important software. Excellent. > I have a few suggestions on how it could be further > improved. There are some issues with what you describe. * Win9x has no interprocess security. ANY security can be bypassed with ~3 Win32 system calls. * On NT FAT drives, using Cygwin=NTEA will give you a similar result to what you describe. Lastly, there is an existing standard for putting *nix overlays onto a FAT drive. It's called UMSDOS, and I've a patch set for cygwin floating around somewhere that goes some way towards implementing it. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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