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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:08:36 -0500
From: Jonathan Keatley <jckeatley AT usa DOT net>
To: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Cygwin DLL 1.3.11-3 causes setuid failure with xterm on NT 4.0
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Hi,

I've encountered a problem with the latest release of the Cygwin DLL. 
Previously I was using version 1.3.10-1, and had no problems with XFree86 or
xterm.  However, when I upgraded to cygwin-1.3.11-3 yesterday, I suddenly
could not start xterm.  I could start any other X11 application I wanted to,
but xterm would flash on the screen briefly and immediately exit.  I ran xterm
with the -hold parameter, and the window stayed up and displayed something
like "setuid failed: Permission denied".  So I ran strace on it and found that
a call to seteuid was failing.  I tried backgrading several components of
XFree86, and that changed nothing, so this morning I tried backgrading to
cygwin-1.3.10-1, and that fixed the problem with xterm.  This problem is
occurring on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a,
with the screen resolution set to 1600x1200, true color.  If you need me to
capture the output of running strace with xterm with 1.3.11-3, I can do that
and send it to you.

Could you check this out and fix it please?

Thanks,
Jonathan Keatley


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