X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+5Gh3cVC8tv0wr7M0AM5oD Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:54:07 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Side-by-side configuration is incorrect reported as permission denied Message-ID: <20120812205407.GA7337@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5025C431.7050201@cygwin.com> <20120812170641.GC32748@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 04:35:23PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: >On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Pawel Jasinski wrote: >>>If you can find a nice Linux errno which maps from >>>ERROR_SXS_CANT_GEN_ACTCTX to something other than EACCES I'd be happy >>>to change Cygwin. >> >>Sorry I was not clear. The point was not to use linux error code. >>what I was trying to say is linux does not follow POSIX only error >>codes policy. Such a policy is impractical. Your point was POSIX >>only, wasn't it? You can add cygwin specific error codes. > >Cygwin doesn't have the access required to execute the process because >of some reason. It is up to you to examine the reason. Why should we >be bothered with anything other than EACCESS? When you reported the >issue the first action you took was to determine why you couldn't >execute a Windows program. That was the correct action, hammering this >list with your wishes isn't gaining you sympathy from those that use >and support it. Actually, it was Andrew Defaria who wanted it but, yeah, I think I've personally devoted more time to this than the issue warrants. I've asked Corinna privately if she has any ideas or concerns but I would be surprised if this was something that she thought important to address. If someone has a patch they want to propose they should send it to cygwin-patches, bearing in mind that we don't want to break any existing applications. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple