X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 35BBF3858418 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=yandex.ru Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=yandex.ru X-Yandex-Fwd: 1 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1662210300; bh=4m5OIgk70fpEVzjniIXpKMNlzCOstxDY9odLpJzDdwE=; h=In-Reply-To:Subject:Date:References:To:Message-ID:Reply-To:From; b=rYxWEcc1aKSXNst/H1tFPp08mgqzcDZtIhSV4Jg9qL/nsI8T2In1BhE7gp7GFjn43 G9AVmy9DL1LyJCiJAzJtvwAOtPbHdfBHoVLBKdPgzkNqq7vOjjgeaaEBXWymFX27FB sSYYQm8Rw8Ie7ZSZJla50FS7+dK5ynQR4/osVKTo= Authentication-Results: vla5-1ef2161cc1d7.qloud-c.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 16:02:02 +0300 From: Andrey Repin X-Mailer: The Bat! (v9.3.4) Professional Message-ID: <373241580.20220903160202@yandex.ru> To: Brian Cowan , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Does the Cygwin setup program do internal sanity checks on startup? In-Reply-To: References: <20220825165242 DOT pkxoey67iyvmdqim AT lucy DOT dinwoodie DOT org> <9c93aa09-880b-be4c-1532-68f492e2aabd AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, KAM_THEBAT, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com Sender: "Cygwin" Greetings, Brian Cowan! Please bottom post in this list. And trim unnecessary quoting. > Well, is it possible to use 7zip? It seems like you can do something like > it in: > https://superuser.com/questions/42788/is-it-possible-to-execute-a-file-after-extraction-from-a-7-zip-self-extracting-a > Not that I think this would help with heuristics, and some AV tools REALLY > don't like executing things from users' temp directories. (Which .Net > applications seem to like to do sometimes.) > Maybe have compressed and uncompressed installers? This is such a rare occurrence, that we could simply post instructions on how to unpack the installer, for whom it is a problem. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Saturday, September 3, 2022 16:00:09 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple