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From: Mike MacDonald <mmacdona AT tsi DOT gte DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: FW: Win32 XServer
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:56:53 -0500
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Thanx, I found that just before, and just after the setruid function calls
there were a bunch of if !defines for a bunch of other os' - so I just added
Cygwin..

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 3:39 PM
To: Mike MacDonald
Cc: 'Suhaib Siddiqi'; 'Cygwin-Xfree AT Sourceware DOT Cygnus DOT Com'
Subject: Re: FW: Win32 XServer


On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 11:26:56AM -0500, Mike MacDonald wrote:
>Alot of people out there telling us it can't be done..  That REALLY pisses
>me off.. Anyway, theres a setruid function that I'm missing..  Is it out
>there, or do I gotta hack one together?  I had the same problem with Eterm,
>I just hacked it out, but I don't know that I want to go around mindlessly
>hacking X code :)..  Besides, it might be why Eterm didn't work..  Prolly
>not, but who knows?
>
>/usr/src/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c:975: undefined
>reference to `setruid'
>/usr/src/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c:989: undefined
>reference to `setruid'

I can't imagine that it would matter in a cygwin application.  We don't
even have the concept of real and effective UIDs.

So maybe you need a '-Dsetruid(x)=0' somewhere?

cgf

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