mkpasswd, mkgroup: __progname points to rubbish

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Oct 2 13:50:00 GMT 2009


On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 01:19:55PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Oct  2 11:38, Julio Costa wrote:
>> In last cygwin beta:
>> 
>> $ uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-5.2 VFPT-ITSECVMT 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin
>> 
>> If I do (obviously found by mistake):
>> 
>> $ mkpasswd -n 0
>> mkpasswd: unknown option -- n
>> Try '?? a --help' for more information.
>> 
>> Note the rubish after "Try".
>
>I can reproduce this with mkpasswd from the latest test release.  I can
>not reproduce it with the latest from CVS.  So, whatever it was, it
>seems to be fixed in CVS.

I can reproduce this and have checked in an obvious fix.

It looks like I need to spend some time updating my binutils and gcc
this weekend.

cgf

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