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Re: Preremove/postinstall scripts fail with snapshot installed
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:13:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: Preremove/postinstall scripts fail with snapshot installed
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On 2/13/2011 12:43 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 13 February 2011 16:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> (*) As a side note, what strikes me as weird is the fact that nothing
>> at all in the information about KB 2393802(**) points to a
>> vulnerability related to the CWD and removable devices. Somehow
>> this change seems to be entirely unrelated to what the MS11-011
>> security bulletin is about. I also inspected all other security
>> bulletins from this month, but to no avail.
>
> If I were a conspiracy theorist I'd suspect a link with a recent
> discussion on a certain MSDN blog.
Wouldn't be the first time. Anybody still remember the old Microsoft
motto: "DOS isn't done 'til Lotus won't run"? Is it time for an update:
"Windows isn't done 'til cygwin won't run"?
--
Chuck