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Date: | Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:17:56 -0500 |
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Subject: | Re: CSIH csih_get_cygenv function (was Re: permission problems with ssh-host-config) |
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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > What was the exact reason to restrict the input for the CYGWIN settings > in csih? I don't quite understand why a lot of options are disallowed > at all, for instance "winsymlinks", "ntea", etc. Inherited from pre-existing code (either old ssh-*-config or exim-config). > IMHO this doesn't make much sense, especially given that Cygwin 1.7 > has a quite different set of CYGWIN settings. I don't mind removing that. > What I'm planning to do is this: > > - In cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh I would like to drop the > check for the content of CYGWIN entirely. OK. > - In ssh-host-config I'd like to set the default for the CYGWIN settings > to an empty string. OK. > What do you think? We still have the on-going confusion concerning "Do you want to use another name?" with -y. I'm hung up on libtool issues right now, but that's on the list to be addressed. However, I won't hold up a release of csih-0.19 waiting for that. BTW, do you think we should fork csih for cygwin-1.7? -- Chuck -- 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/
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