From: s2172184@cse.unsw.edu.au ("Ben Constable") Subject: Re: ps and kill 6 Dec 1996 19:18:19 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <961207020755.22522.cygnus.gnu-win32@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "David Highley" , X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > If you create the directory structure and touch the file the diagnostic > message will go away. Then if you create the /etc/passwd and /etc/group > files to match what you get from the id command it seems to work on a > Win95 system. I know that. But you cannot create a utmp file that is always correct, because it is a dynamic file. As are the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. > This should be a solvable, especialy as Microsoft moves Win95 in the > direction of NT. If there is a need for seperate code it should be > carefully limited. Why? At the moment the driver structure is totally different and the security stuff in NT and unix is missing from 95. Ben Constable s2172184@cse.unsw.edu.au - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".