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From: Steve Jorgensen <jorgens AT coho DOT net>
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Subject: RE: Win98 and multiple users
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:07:33 -0700
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I'm no Cygwin developer as of yet, but I think I can answer this one. 
 Cygwin, for the most part, provides a 'nix wrapper around Windows, and 
uses Windows to do the work.

NT allows separate processes to run in different user contexts, but Windows 
98 does not.  Thus, Windows 98 has no applicable functionality to wrap. 
 You would need an entire virtual machine with another copy of Windows 
running another Cygwin to do what you're talking about.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Peter Jones [SMTP:funnytoes AT whoever DOT com]
Sent:	Saturday, July 21, 2001 1:23 PM
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Win98 and multiple users

I'm not sure how this request will be taken...

I want to get cygwin to support multiple concurrent _different_ logins 
under Win98.  I want to have one window logged in as user_a and another 
logged in as user_b.

>From reading the archives and website, I can see no _technical_ reason why 
the cygwin heap can't keep track of separate users (after all, it does 
exactly that on WinNT).  Equally, I can't see what I need to tweak to get 
it to work on Win98.

(If Win98 users were really different users, there would be security 
implications here.  However, all I really want to do is organise different 
collections of preferences for my different work mode - without having to 
log off Win98 to switch.)

Can anyone give me some pointers..?
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