X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-YMail-OSG: eMCeXX8VM1mdN7acEs7RftKmPRjGqzrFVzNRVAnPW8S05.o4PdwtIRtKxW1kplo0zeYLPbt0pjN_AF7dc2LRr6YFrNJdULtW7jzouNCksudLM.2XMfLEfvKhVk1b8OLHgWgeGYh3zioT9pTFa462Y3Q3FMOrRzvy.EfnxVCjHPh6BS3v5ly03lzROdNA Message-ID: <4589C85F.3040600@sbcglobal.net> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:33:51 -0600 From: Greg Youngdahl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060809 Debian/1.7.13-0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin and Windows Vista support References: <4588A644 DOT 7080408 AT gmail DOT com> <4588A926 DOT 9080305 AT cygwin DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4588A926.9080305@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Carlo Florendo wrote: > >> Neeraj Garg (TRANSPORT) wrote: >> >>> I am not sure if that was request for help or just a witty comment >>> back. I am willing to help Cygwin dev get in touch with appropriate >>> folks in Windows Vista team to resolve the issue. >>> >> >> >> It was a witty comment and it really involves the windows kernel. In >> any case, please do all you can so that your Vista team contacts read >> this (c/o Corinna Vinschen) >> >> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1 >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> I know CreateProcess call should have worked. >> >> >> Yes, it should have, at least, in older windows versions. But vista >> has had some sort of security elevation issues that causes process >> creation problems. >> >>> I am not in that team to give you information on what has changed in >>> Vista compared to XP. All I can say is that I would like to see the >>> product fixed and am willing to offer help. >>> >>> PS: Some Vista users mentioned to me that Cygwin does not work and >>> hence I am involved to make sure we can work together to make it work. >>> >>> If any dev would like to work with Vista dev team to get the product >>> ready soon, please let me know. >>> >>> Neeraj >>> >> >> >> >> There have been discussions lately, precisely on process spawning on >> Cygwin. It appears to be a serious "security" bug on Vista. For >> details, read the thread started by Corinna Vinschen (senior cygwin >> developer) on: Wholy crap - Microsoft really is insane. This is not a "security bug", it is yet another example of the sort of design philosophy that makes Windows the pile of S**t that it is. 6 million lines (Vista is presumably much more than even that - thats the number I heard for XP) of that kind of thinking is why virus/spy authors have such an easy task. Microsoft really doesn't have any idea what it takes to make a system secure, do they? -- Greg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/