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Corinna's security patches now in latest snapshot -- please test
- To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
- Subject: Corinna's security patches now in latest snapshot -- please test
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 22:15:59 -0400
- Cc: cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com, noer@cygnus.com
- References: <001e01bea51f$32202810$0181a8c0@corinna.vinschen.net>
I have incorporated Corinna's extensive security patches into our
sources here. They should show up in a snapshot tonight.
I'd appreciate it if everyone could test this DLL. It provides
increased security for signal handling and, most importantly, security
and more UNIX-like permisissons for files. With this we get the ability
to set the execute bit on a file without resorting to NTEA. The file
stuff only works on an NTFS partition, unfortunately.
I hope that Corinna will grace us with a better description on what this
patch does and what to expect from it. She obviously spent a lot of
time on it and it looks like it works well.
Please try this out.
-Chris