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Re: [PATCH]: cygwin_internal
On Jul 1 09:58, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> The situation is that exim has the concept that some groups
> are privileged and can have write access to the configuration file.
> They are normally initialized to hard values set at compile time.
>
> The Cygwin port of exim fakes things up so that the gid of Admins
> (obtained from cygwin_internal) is put in the list of exim's privileged
> groups.
> The problem is that the gid obtained by cygwin_internal (from the
> Admins sid) may not match the gid reported by stat, which is obtained by
> cygpsid::get_id () from the same Admins sid.
Ok, that makes sense. It seems that cygserver can stumble over the
same problem.
Chris, is removing cygwin_regname ok with you?
Corinna
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