Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 01:14:19 -0600 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: suid bit on executables? Message-ID: <20040327011419.B14748@ns1.iocc.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu on Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:38:36PM -0500 On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:38:36PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > FYI, Cygwin implements /dev/conin and /dev/conout, so, perhaps, the > > > approach suggested in > > > would be helpful (or something along those lines). > > > > I tried man and apropos, and found nothing for conin or conout, > > Technically, you should have been able to look at > instead... The > Cygwin User's Guide makes for wonderful and exciting bed-time reading. ;-) > However, the above document is strangely silent on the topic of > conin/conout... As things stand now, looking at the Cygwin source is > probably your best bet. OK, there is now a more exhaustive list in the User's Guide. Feel free to correct. I separated out /dev{comX,conin,conout,clipboard,windows} since they appear to be Cygwin-specific. A couple of others like /dev/dsp and /dev/ttym might be too, and is /dev/pipe different than on *nix? Also, while I was "researching" this change I ran across this great reference page about devices in Cygwin (well, great if you read Japanese and still probably decent if you don't): It appears to be about..._Cygwin+Cygwin JE: Running a UNIX Environment with Windows_, published June 2003: So, if anyone on this list was hoping to write the first Cygwin book, it's too late! You can still write the first English one though. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/