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Re: [PATCH] cygcheck parsing of id output
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 23:58:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] cygcheck parsing of id output
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
Ping.
Igor
On Thu, 1 May 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The attached patch allows cygcheck to handle spaces, commas, and
> *matching* parentheses in user and group names in the "id" output.
> There's some code sharing in parsing the user and group names, but that
> could be refactored in a later cleanup.
>
> One issue that also came up is the old "run a cygwin program from a
> non-cygwin program from an xterm" issue -- when running cygcheck from an
> xterm, id pops up a separate window and cygcheck gets no output from id...
> I'm not sure how to fix this. One thing that comes to mind is making
> cygcheck aware of Cygwin ptys, but I don't know how hard that would be...
> Igor
> ==============================================================================
> ChangeLog:
> 2003-05-01 Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
>
> * cygcheck.cc (pretty_id): Parse id output without
> using strtok.
> (match_paren): New static function.
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