Re: [PATCH] cygcheck parsing of id output

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Yet another ping...  3 months and counting -- has this gotten lost?

By now the patch might need slight forward porting, but the functionality
won't change at all, so please let me know if it's worthwhile to spend
time on that.
	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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