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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:51:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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Subject: Re: FYI: current Cygwin CVS working nicely
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:03:52PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> > I've just checked out the latest Cygwin sources and built a cygwin1.dll 
> > (and friends). It seems to be working nicely - though I must say that I 
> > haven't stressed it to the limits of the imaginable :)
> > 
> > Is there anything the core developers would like me to try while torturing 
> > the Cygwin DLL and being incredibly cruel and mean with it? ;)
> 
> I guess the usual meanness will suffice.  However, installing all
> available 1.5.0 test packages, using them, building apps with them...
> everything's useful.  What I'm missing so far are reports about
> creating and using uids/gids > 65535 (expect older tools to fail!)
I just re-compiled sh-utils from source (had to apply a micro-patch, 
though - see below)

whoami works nicely on my uid (651006)
idem for id

HTH

rlc

Patch applied to /usr/src/sh-utils-2.0.15-3/lib/regex.c is available here:
7ce6de729b3636ce4c5bcd92aea1533b *regex.c.diff
http://blytkerchan.chez.tiscali.fr/regex.c.diff



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