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Re: fetchmail/procmail/jed -- cygwin binaries available?


On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:53:11PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:33:26AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > 
>> > In theory that should be no problem. As a first hack simply
>> > uncomment these calls or ignore the return value. If maildrop
>> > uses strict chmod settings, open them up. If maildrop then works
>> > without complaining we could care to rearranging security again.
>> > I have written a function for OpenSSH which checks if security
>> > makes sense, dependent of the used file system and if ntea/ntsec
>> > are on or off. We could recycle that functionality as desired.
>> > 
>> 
>> Or, should this become an official Cygwin specific API?  Then you
>> wouldn't have to recycle, it would simply be the way you do it.
>
>Good point. Chris? Do you think that makes sense?

I hate adding cygwin specific APIs but maybe this make sense.

Hmm.  Isn't there a way to figure this out using a UNIX API?  Could
we extend pathconf, maybe?

cgf

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