Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <00f401c23ad6$edfa9570$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: <3D4B18D5 DOT 14542 DOT 70F35EA7 AT localhost> Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior. Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 11:13:35 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Paul Derbyshire wrote: > On 2 Aug 2002 at 17:37, Max Bowsher wrote: > >>> In any event, yes, you're not allowed to publicly contradict me. >> >> Umm... free speech? > > Umm...anti-defamation laws? Trying to make someone you personally > dislike look like an idiot in a public setting by contradicting or > ridiculing them qualifies as defamation, by the way. I simply stated that your assertion was false. At no point did I target you. My aim was simply to prevent the other people from learning incorrect information. >>> Given the context it is an attack. >> >> You state that Windows works in a particular way. I correct you, because it >> doesn't work like you think. Sorry, I don't see where the problem is. > > The problem is that you are trying to tar me some kind of idiot! No. I'm not. As above. >> Hmm, I wonder why? The _only_ difference between you and other listmembers that >> is visible to the list is the content of your postings. I.e., it is what _you_ >> have said on the list that has caused this different treatment. > > No, the difference is that someone has taken a personal dislike to > me, for whatever reason. The reason is irrelevant. I just gave the only possible reason above! >>> Problems or no problems I don't want to bother with the enormous >>> amount of sheer nitpicking work required to propagate the change >>> consistently to everywhere the old name appears, and the risk of >>> breaking something if I miss one obscure instance. Especially not to >>> satisfy the needs of one subsystem, when everything else on Windows >>> outside of Cygwin seems to find my existing user name just peachy. >> >> I agree. Changing your Windows username is not the ideal solution to this >> problem. > > Then why didn't you just say so, instead of appearing to disagree and > insulting my intelligence with every posting? I was not discussing changing windows usernames as applied to this situation. I was simply arguing that, should you want to do it, it would be substantially less difficult than you suggested. I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression about this. >> However, I wish to establish the fact that the amount of sheer >> nitpicking work that you refer to is zero. > > Bull. If I change my username to Zaphod Beeblebrox, to make things > consistent I'd have to rename my home directories (Windows and cygwin > both) to Zaphod Beeblebrox. Cygwin, maybe. Windows, no. Windows intends for you to access stuff in your home directory through things like My Documents. If you wish to poke around in "C:\Documents and Settings", fine, but you would have to change the directory name in your registry profile as well. > Then there's all the MRU lists that refer > to files in Paul Derbyshire directories. Yes. You are not required or supposed to change Windows home dirs. > Then there's any > configuration file that refers to such a directory, and anything else > of that general sort... and of course /etc/passwd. Indeed. The one and only place we told you to edit in the first place. [snip speculation about dire consequences] > Frankly, the lengths you'll go to to support an insulting claim about > me, e.g. that I'm wrong about something, are amazing. What motivates > your evident dedication to this self-appointed task? What did I ever > do to you? - The lengths I needed to go to are, in fact, very short. Which was what I set out to demonstrate. - Motivation: I saw a misinformed person, and tried to help. - Dedication: Not required. It was an easy task. >> The only thing for me to be aware of is that if I regenerate >> /etc/passwd with mkpasswd, it will use the wrong home directory. > > Says he who just got through claiming there were no gotchas. I claimed it was trivial. I still believe it is. >> No one said that changing your Windows username was the only way round this. >> It was merely raised as one possible option. > > But when I dismissed it as too much pain and hardship you lambasted > me. No. I attempted to correct some points on which you were misinformed. You took this very badly, for some reason unknown to me. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/