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From: "Funnytoes Foxwolf" <funnytoes AT whoever DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 13:17:05 +0000
Subject: RE: Win98 and multiple users

Steve,

I thought the cygwin heap was, in essence, that virtual machine - it stores persistant data across invokations.  All that needs to happen, as far as I can see, is for the setuid/seteuid/etc/etc calls to set per-process values in the shared memory heap and for getuid/etc... to use that value.  The "uid" concept is completely lacking in Win98, so cygwin's spoofing that already.

-- Ft

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To: "cygwin at cygwin dot Com (E-mail)" <cygwin at cygwin dot com> 
Subject: RE: Win98 and multiple users 
From: Steve Jorgensen <jorgens at coho dot net> 
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 14:07:33 -0700 
Reply-To: "jorgens at coho dot net" <jorgens at coho dot net> 


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.


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