X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49807724.5010808@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:17:56 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: CSIH csih_get_cygenv function (was Re: permission problems with ssh-host-config) References: <200901271835.n0RIZiTm027800@tyr.informatik.fh-fulda.de> <20090128101904.GT16129@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090128112140.GW16129@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20090128112140.GW16129@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > What was the exact reason to restrict the input for the CYGWIN settings > in csih? I don't quite understand why a lot of options are disallowed > at all, for instance "winsymlinks", "ntea", etc. Inherited from pre-existing code (either old ssh-*-config or exim-config). > IMHO this doesn't make much sense, especially given that Cygwin 1.7 > has a quite different set of CYGWIN settings. I don't mind removing that. > What I'm planning to do is this: > > - In cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh I would like to drop the > check for the content of CYGWIN entirely. OK. > - In ssh-host-config I'd like to set the default for the CYGWIN settings > to an empty string. OK. > What do you think? We still have the on-going confusion concerning "Do you want to use another name?" with -y. I'm hung up on libtool issues right now, but that's on the list to be addressed. However, I won't hold up a release of csih-0.19 waiting for that. BTW, do you think we should fork csih for cygwin-1.7? -- Chuck -- 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/