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Subject: Re: Future ntsec-detection problem in sshd (Re: winsup/cygwin ChangeLog security.cc)
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:40:50 +0100
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 10:23:45PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Perhaps is would be better to add a 'bool is_ntsec_enabled();'
>> function to cygwin1.dll?
>
> Perhaps.  OTOH I'd have to load that function dynamically inside of
> sshd so that it still runs on older versions of the Cygwin dll.  And
> if the function doesn't exist, I'd have to check ntsec still using
> the old method.  Hmm.

If people are upgrading ssh surely they should also be upgrading cygwin as well?
Is there any reason to support people trying to use old cygwin1.dll versions
with newly released cygwin software?

Max.


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