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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:16:54 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: suid bit on executables?
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On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:11:38PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>OTOH, once cygserver is in place, we'll have a working "su" (which is
>exactly what you want, right?).

I just want to clarify that cygserver.exe is in place and functional right
now.  It just doesn't support "su" or "suid"... yet.

cygserver works just fine for providing SysV IPC support, however.

cgf

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