Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/06/27/11:11:44
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:50:28AM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote:
>[Please be careful to only reply to cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com, I am only sending
>this to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com so that the Cygwin folks know what is going on.]
>
>Non-xterm clients work fine. xterm does not work.
>
>The base problem here is that xterm calls getuid () to find out what the
>current process's user id is. Then it later calls setuid (), passing the same
>value that was returned by getuid (). For some reason, regardless of whether
>you have run 'mkpasswd -d -u user_name >> /etc/passwd', the call to setuid ()
>fails with Permission Denied.
>
>This is not something that the Cygwin/XFree86 folks changed, rather it was
>something that was changed in Cygwin proper (think cygwin1.dll). From our
>perspective, and probably from the perspective of the Cygwin developers,
>cygwin1.dll is broken when Cygwin/XFree86 doesn't work right.
>
>Thus, I'm going to guess that the Cygwin folks are working on this and that
>you need to start testing the latest cygwin1.dll snapshots to help them, and
>us, figure out when the problem is fixed. I've got a machine now that has the
>same problem so I will be testing snapshots as well, once a compile job finishes.
>
>Here is some information on installing a snapshot release of cygwin1.dll:
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-06/msg00383.html
Thanks for *trying* a snapshot, Harold, and reporting on your experiences.
I guess we'll keep plugging at this. My time is very limited but I'll
try to debug this X problem as soon as I have a chance.
Until then if someone could 1) Try the very latest snapshot (the
2002-06-26 snapshot changed several times yesterday) and 2) post an
strace from a failing xterm. It would help enormously.
cgf
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