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Re: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:25:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote:
>
>
>> Work remains to to fix authFile (change the colon character to
>> something storeable on the NTFS filesystem) and to add
>> ntsec setuid code to permit non-setuid-privilened user
>> authentications.
>
>With the new (experimental) 1.5 cygwin dll its now possible to have a cygwin
>"managed" mount which allows special characters and names (like a colon for
>instance).
>see <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00248.html>
>As CGF as said its not quite ready for prime time yet but it might help you.
The implementation in 1.5.0 is broken. The last cygwin snapshot should
be better.
I only recommend this for empty directories or directories/files created
after a mount. The potential for confusion is too great otherwise.
cgf