Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:36:31 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > Currently setuid on Win95/98/ME always returns success > > but does not change the uid. That confuses some programs > > that verify if the setuid has really succeeded. > > > > It is literally a two line change in Cygwin to fix > > that, but unfortunately changing uids breaks sshd > > on Win95/98/ME. > > Can we really do this? Doesn't that potentially break something?
It makes Cygwin more unix-like, so it should be OK. I tested it and the only problem I found was sshd. Pierre
