Re: /usr/bin/sg in Cygwin?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr 22 07:55, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 at 01:20, Dan Shelton via Cygwin  
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 07:39, Brian Inglis via Cygwin  
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2024-04-19 17:47, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 22:25, Dan Shelton wrote:
> > > >> Is there a package which provides /usr/bin/sg (execute shell commands
> > > >> in a different group)?
> > >
> > > The POSIX standard command is newgrp - install cygwin-doc to see Cygwin 
> > > (and
> > > newlib libc) man pages (and info, html, PDF docs), man-pages-posix to see 
> > > POSIX
> > > man pages, and man-pages-linux if you want to see recent Linux release 
> > > man pages.
> > >
> > > To see possibly relevant commands, run:
> > >
> > > $ apropos -s 1,1p group
> > > chgrp (1)- change group ownership
> > > chgrp (1p)   - change the file group ownership
> > > chown (1)- change file owner and group
> > > g3topbm (1)  - convert a Group 3 fax file into a PBM image
> > > groups (1)   - print the groups a user is in
> > > id (1)   - print real and effective user and group IDs
> > > make (1) - GNU Make utility to maintain groups of programs
> > > make (1p)- maintain, update, and regenerate groups of programs
> > > mkgroup (1)  - Write /etc/group-like output to stdout
> > > newgrp (1)   - change primary group for a command
> > > newgrp (1p)  - change to a new group
> > > pbmtog3 (1)  - convert a PBM image into a Group 3 MH fax file
> >
> > newgrp(1) is USELESS. It only opens an interactive shell, but does not
> > allow the user to execute a non-interactive script with the requested
> > group like bash -c does.
> 
> Linux /usr/bin/sg source is in
> https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/blob/master/src/newgrp.c
> So this is just a packaging issue that whoever does the Cygwin newgrp
> package has to package /usr/bin/sg too

newgrp(1) is a Cygwin util from the base package:

  $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/newgrp
  cygwin-3.6.0-0.109.ga0a25849f9dd

Reason being that the functionality under Windows is pretty limited
compared to "real" POSIX systems...

https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/newgrp.html

...and fetching the default environment of the user (to implement the
dash option '-') is pretty different from any other known POSIX system,
having to use Windows functions:

  https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/utils/newgrp.c

If anybody thinks he or she can provide a useful shadow-utils
package, feel free.  But it might not be worth the effort, probably.


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Re: /usr/bin/sg in Cygwin?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr 21 21:35, Eliot Moss via Cygwin wrote:
> On 4/21/2024 7:20 PM, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 07:39, Brian Inglis via Cygwin  
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 2024-04-19 17:47, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 22:25, Dan Shelton wrote:
> > > > > Is there a package which provides /usr/bin/sg (execute shell commands
> > > > > in a different group)?
> > > 
> > > The POSIX standard command is newgrp - install cygwin-doc to see Cygwin 
> > > (and
> > > newlib libc) man pages (and info, html, PDF docs), man-pages-posix to see 
> > > POSIX
> > > man pages, and man-pages-linux if you want to see recent Linux release 
> > > man pages.
> > > 
> > > To see possibly relevant commands, run:
> > > 
> > > $ apropos -s 1,1p group
> > > chgrp (1)- change group ownership
> > > chgrp (1p)   - change the file group ownership
> > > chown (1)- change file owner and group
> > > g3topbm (1)  - convert a Group 3 fax file into a PBM image
> > > groups (1)   - print the groups a user is in
> > > id (1)   - print real and effective user and group IDs
> > > make (1) - GNU Make utility to maintain groups of programs
> > > make (1p)- maintain, update, and regenerate groups of programs
> > > mkgroup (1)  - Write /etc/group-like output to stdout
> > > newgrp (1)   - change primary group for a command
> > > newgrp (1p)  - change to a new group
> > > pbmtog3 (1)  - convert a PBM image into a Group 3 MH fax file
> > 
> > newgrp(1) is USELESS. It only opens an interactive shell, but does not
> > allow the user to execute a non-interactive script with the requested
> > group like bash -c does.
> 
> ??
> 
> The man pages has:
> 
>  newgrp [-] [group] [command [args...]]
> 
> which implies to me that you can give a command.
> 
> Did that not work for you?  EM

WJFFM:

  $ id
  uid=1049577(corinna) gid=1049701(vinschen) 
groups=1049701(vinschen),545(Users),14(REMOTE INTERACTIVE 
LOGON),4(INTERACTIVE),11(Authenticated Users),15(This 
Organization),4095(CurrentSession),66048(LOCAL),1049089(Domain 
Users),70145(Authentication authority asserted identity),1049148(Denied RODC 
Password Replication Group),401408(Medium Mandatory Level)
  $ newgrp Users id -g
  545


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Re: 3.5.x regression: misquoting command line arguments from native processes

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi David,

On Apr 20 08:43, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> > On Apr  9 22:38, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Apr  3 16:53, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > I have what appears to be a regression in Cygwin 3.5.0 which, owing to
> > > > a CI system lagging behind, we've only just discovered.
> > > > [...]
> > > > $ ./t.exe 'C:\Devel\реализация-mingw64\flexdll\flexdll_mingw64.o'
> > > > stat: cannot stat
> > > > '"C:\Devel\'$'\360\237\220\253''реализация-mingw64\flexdll\flexdll_mingw64.o':
> > > > No such file or directory
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for the STC!
> > >
> > > I think I fixed that for 3.5.4.  I pushed a patch and the test release
> > > cygwin-3.6.0-0.115.g579064bf4d40 is just building and should be ready
> > > for testing in an hour or two.
> > >
> > > Please give it a try.
> >
> > Sorry for nagging, but do you have some feedback, be it bad or good?
> 
> Sorry for having needed nagging! It does indeed fix it, thank you -
> our smoke-test Bactrian camels can be restored 

Great, nice to read this. I'll keep my camel testcase around, just in
case :)


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: 3.5.x regression: misquoting command line arguments from native processes

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi David,

On Apr  9 22:38, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Apr  3 16:53, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> > I have what appears to be a regression in Cygwin 3.5.0 which, owing to
> > a CI system lagging behind, we've only just discovered.
> > [...]
> > $ ./t.exe 'C:\Devel\реализация-mingw64\flexdll\flexdll_mingw64.o'
> > stat: cannot stat
> > '"C:\Devel\'$'\360\237\220\253''реализация-mingw64\flexdll\flexdll_mingw64.o':
> > No such file or directory
> 
> Thanks a lot for the STC!
> 
> I think I fixed that for 3.5.4.  I pushed a patch and the test release
> cygwin-3.6.0-0.115.g579064bf4d40 is just building and should be ready
> for testing in an hour or two.
> 
> Please give it a try.

Sorry for nagging, but do you have some feedback, be it bad or good?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: Win32 FILE_BASIC_INFORMATION.*Time.QuadPart - which value should be used if filesystem does not support it, so Cygwin /usr/bin/stat lists the value as '-'?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr  9 22:30, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2024-04-09 15:14, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Apr  5 04:26, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 2:05 AM Martin Wege  
> > > wrote:
> > > > I have problems with debugging, so a quick help would be appreciated,
> > > > as I cannot figure this out after several hours of digging.
> > > > 
> > > > Cygwin /usr/bin/stat returns "Birth: -" for some files. Which value
> > > > must the CreationTime member of FILE_BASIC_INFORMATION have to cause
> > > > /usr/bin/stat ti return "-"? 0, -1, or something else?
> > > 
> > > In a related matter:
> > > The Win32 FILE_BASIC_INFORMATION structure defines four time values:
> > > 
> > > LARGE_INTEGER CreationTime;
> > > LARGE_INTEGER LastAccessTime;
> > > LARGE_INTEGER LastWriteTime;
> > > LARGE_INTEGER ChangeTime;
> > > 
> > > How can a filesystem indicate if it does not support a particular
> > > timestamp, such as ChangeTime? Should ChangeTime.QuadPart then be -1,
> > > -2 or 0, or another value?
> > 
> > I'm not aware of a filesystem not supporting ChangeTime, that is,
> > st_ctime.  Usually only CreationTime (st_birthtime) is missing.
> 
> R/O media like CD/DVD-R or FS w/o write support?

Oh yes, that makes sense, CDFS and the likes of them.

> > I think setting the timestamp to 0 works for indicating that this kind
> > of timestamp is not supported.  Cygwin is handling Windows timestamps
> > this way, but I can't find this in documentation ATM.
> 
> See upthread?:
> 
> Caller or application can set 0 to mean keep/return current value, caller or
> driver can set -1 to mean don't update/return current value:
> 
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/wdm/ns-wdm-_file_basic_information#remarks

I'm aware of that.  This remarks session is copy/pasted in other MSFT
articles, too.  But it doesn't really answer Martin's question.

It describes what a consumer (application or driver) is supposed to set
the timestamps to when passing timestamps to a filesystem driver via
ZwSetInformationFile (or its friends on the lower OS levels).

It does *not* describe the other direction of the call stack, i. e.,
what a filesystem driver is supposed to set a timestamp to, if its
underlying filesystem doesn't support this kind of timestamp.

And that's the direction Martin is asking about.


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Re: Win32 FILE_BASIC_INFORMATION.*Time.QuadPart - which value should be used if filesystem does not support it, so Cygwin /usr/bin/stat lists the value as '-'?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr  5 04:26, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 2:05 AM Martin Wege  wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have problems with debugging, so a quick help would be appreciated,
> > as I cannot figure this out after several hours of digging.
> >
> > Cygwin /usr/bin/stat returns "Birth: -" for some files. Which value
> > must the CreationTime member of FILE_BASIC_INFORMATION have to cause
> > /usr/bin/stat ti return "-"? 0, -1, or something else?
> 
> In a related matter:
> The Win32 FILE_BASIC_INFORMATION structure defines four time values:
> 
> LARGE_INTEGER CreationTime;
> LARGE_INTEGER LastAccessTime;
> LARGE_INTEGER LastWriteTime;
> LARGE_INTEGER ChangeTime;
> 
> How can a filesystem indicate if it does not support a particular
> timestamp, such as ChangeTime? Should ChangeTime.QuadPart then be -1,
> -2 or 0, or another value?

I'm not aware of a filesystem not supporting ChangeTime, that is,
st_ctime.  Usually only CreationTime (st_birthtime) is missing.

I think setting the timestamp to 0 works for indicating that this kind
of timestamp is not supported.  Cygwin is handling Windows timestamps
this way, but I can't find this in documentation ATM.

But the FS driver can also just fill the CreationTime field with the
same value as LastWriteTime or ChangeTime.  MSFT NFS does that.


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Re: 3.5.x regression: misquoting command line arguments from native processes

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi David,

On Apr  3 16:53, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> I have what appears to be a regression in Cygwin 3.5.0 which, owing to
> a CI system lagging behind, we've only just discovered.
> [...]
> $ ./t.exe 'C:\Devel\реализация-mingw64\flexdll\flexdll_mingw64.o'
> stat: cannot stat
> '"C:\Devel\'$'\360\237\220\253''реализация-mingw64\flexdll\flexdll_mingw64.o':
> No such file or directory

Thanks a lot for the STC!

I think I fixed that for 3.5.4.  I pushed a patch and the test release
cygwin-3.6.0-0.115.g579064bf4d40 is just building and should be ready
for testing in an hour or two.

Please give it a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: cygwin 3.5.3-1 : "Device or resource busy" from 'find {pagefile,swapfile}.sys'

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi Bruce,

On Apr  4 07:22, Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin wrote:
> As of cygwin 3.5.3-1, 'find' reports "Device or resource busy" and
> exits with status 1 on these two files:
> 
>   $ find /cygdrive/c/{pagefile,swapfile}.sys
>   /cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys
>   find: ‘/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys’: Device or resource busy
>   /cygdrive/c/swapfile.sys
>   find: ‘/cygdrive/c/swapfile.sys’: Device or resource busy
> 
>   $ echo $?
>   1

Thanks for the report.

Should be fixed in cygwin-3.6.0-0.113.g38b513983590, which is
just being built and should be ready in an hour or two.

This will go into 3.5.4, of course.


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Re: Cygwin file prefetch, block sizes?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr  3 10:14, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
>   
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/ntddk/ns-ntddk-_file_fs_sector_size_information
> 
>   If the filesystem is local and SSINFO_FLAGS_NO_SEEK_PENALTY is set, we
>   could stick to 64K.
> 
>   Otherwise the PhysicalBytesPerSectorForPerformance member might be
>   helpful I guess.  Needs checking, of course.

It's not helpful. This is the output for NTFS:
  (gdb) p ffssi
  $5 = {LogicalBytesPerSector = 512, PhysicalBytesPerSectorForAtomicity = 512,
PhysicalBytesPerSectorForPerformance = 512,
FileSystemEffectivePhysicalBytesPerSectorForAtomicity = 512, Flags = 11,
ByteOffsetForSectorAlignment = 0, ByteOffsetForPartitionAlignment = 0}

D'oh

>   If this isn't any good, we can still fallback to
>   FILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION as in fhandler_base::fstatvfs_by_handle,
>   
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/disk_file.cc#n661

So ffsi.BytesPerSector * ffsi.SectorsPerAllocationUnit is it then.

But:

> On Apr  3 00:35, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> > While I can understand the motivation, FAT32 on multi-GB-devices
> > having 64k block size, and Win32 API on Win95/98/ME/Win7 being
> > optimized to that insane block size, it is absolutely WRONG with
> > today's NTFS and even more so with ReFS.

So this has supposedly changed with Win8. Where's that publically
documented?


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Re: Implementing /bin/ionice, ioprio_set() support with FILE_IO_PRIORITY_HINT_INFO?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr  3 03:51, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> could Cygwin implement support for /usr/bin/ionice and ioprio_set()
> via FILE_IO_PRIORITY_HINT_INFO?

Not ionice, the tool, but only ioprio_get/ioprio_set, the API.

The problem is the functionality bit allowing to set the priority
in arbitrary processes.

And, as usual, https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI

I would again like to stress the fact that we're all volunteers here,
and we're a sadly small bunch of people actually contributing to the
core code.

It's easy to ask for new functionality, but it needs time to implement
stuff and we all have another job keeping the money coming, and that
job takes priority.

We don't want to see stuff like the xz debacle in Cygwin, right?


Corinna

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Re: Cygwin file prefetch, block sizes?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr  3 00:35, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 3:17 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> >
> > On Apr  2 02:04, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is there any document which describes how Cygwin and Win32 file
> > > prefetch and readahead work, and which sizes are used (e.g. always
> > > read one full page even if only 16 bytes are requested?)?
> >
> > I'm not aware of any docs, but again, keep in mind that Cygwin is a
> > usersapce DLL. We basically do what Windows does for low-level file
> > access.
> >
> > > Quick /usr/bin/stat /etc/profile returns "IO Block: 65536". Does that
> > > mean the file's block size is really 64k? Is this info per filesystem,
> > > or hardcoded in Cygwin?
> >
> > Hardcoded in Cygwin since 2017, based on a discussion in terms of
> > file access performance, especially when using stdio.h functions:
> >
> >   https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/commit/?id=7bef7db5ccd9c
> 
> OUCH.
> 
> While I can understand the motivation, FAT32 on multi-GB-devices
> having 64k block size, and Win32 API on Win95/98/ME/Win7 being
> optimized to that insane block size, it is absolutely WRONG with
> today's NTFS and even more so with ReFS. This only works if you stream
> files, but as soon as you are doing random read/writes the performance
> is terrible due to cache thrashing. That could explain the many
> complaints about Cygwin's IO performance.

The above patch *only* sets stat::st_blksize to 64K. Nothing else
happens!

This usually means that stdio.h functions use this size for their buffer
and readahead.  It doesn't affect direct calls to read(2)/write(2) and
fread(3)/fwrite(3) at all!

> So, what can be done? I'm not a benchmarking guru, so I'd like to
> propose to add a tunable called EXPERIMENTAL_PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE to

No.

We have two ways to handle this *iff* there's really a reason to
handle this.

- Either we just lower PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE to 4K or 8K, but that's
  kind of bad in terms of pipes, the clipboard, etc.

- So we keep PREFERRED_IO_BLKSIZE at 64K but don't use it for disk
  files.  Rather, we read this info from the filesystem:

  
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/ntddk/ns-ntddk-_file_fs_sector_size_information

  If the filesystem is local and SSINFO_FLAGS_NO_SEEK_PENALTY is set, we
  could stick to 64K.

  Otherwise the PhysicalBytesPerSectorForPerformance member might be
  helpful I guess.  Needs checking, of course.

  If this isn't any good, we can still fallback to
  FILE_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION as in fhandler_base::fstatvfs_by_handle,
  
https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/disk_file.cc#n661

Corinna


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Re: xargs completely broken under cygwin 3.6.0-0.108.gb7f5a33200a9

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr  2 08:38, Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin wrote:
> 'xargs' is back to working with cygwin-3.6.0-0.109.ga0a25849f9dd .
> 
> Thanks for the quick fix!
> -- Bruce

Thanks for the report and testing!


Corinna

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Re: Cygwin file prefetch, block sizes?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr  2 02:04, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there any document which describes how Cygwin and Win32 file
> prefetch and readahead work, and which sizes are used (e.g. always
> read one full page even if only 16 bytes are requested?)?

I'm not aware of any docs, but again, keep in mind that Cygwin is a
usersapce DLL. We basically do what Windows does for low-level file
access.

> Quick /usr/bin/stat /etc/profile returns "IO Block: 65536". Does that
> mean the file's block size is really 64k? Is this info per filesystem,
> or hardcoded in Cygwin?

Hardcoded in Cygwin since 2017, based on a discussion in terms of
file access performance, especially when using stdio.h functions:

  https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/commit/?id=7bef7db5ccd9c

Corinna

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Re: xargs completely broken under cygwin 3.6.0-0.108.gb7f5a33200a9

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr  2 12:44, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Apr  2 01:42, Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin wrote:
> > I just did binary-search regression tests on the available
> > old test versions, and found this:
> > 
> > OK:  cygwin-3.6.0-0.86.gbfe2790e7bc4.tar.xz
> > BAD: cygwin-3.6.0-0.92.g8bd6ba8f16ec.tar.xz
> 
> Thanks, I found the offending patch, but I have to think about a
> solution.
> 
> Stay tuned,
> Corinna

Just building cygwin-3.6.0-0.109.ga0a25849f9dd, should be up in
an hour or two. Please give it a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: xargs completely broken under cygwin 3.6.0-0.108.gb7f5a33200a9

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Apr  2 01:42, Bruce Jerrick via Cygwin wrote:
> I just did binary-search regression tests on the available
> old test versions, and found this:
> 
> OK:  cygwin-3.6.0-0.86.gbfe2790e7bc4.tar.xz
> BAD: cygwin-3.6.0-0.92.g8bd6ba8f16ec.tar.xz

Thanks, I found the offending patch, but I have to think about a
solution.

Stay tuned,
Corinna

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Re: [tz] Ubuntu drops old-style links - tzdata split test package

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps]

On Mar 28 02:25, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> I have released and announced a test package of tzdata 2024a-2 split into
> three install packages: base tzdata, optional tzdata-right, and redundant
> tzdata-posix, each containing all the legacy zones so that tzset continues
> to work as before.
> 
> I could not reduce the base installed zones by many, because most were used
> by tzset, but I did drop a couple of large zone source files, produced by
> the build, that were previously included to allow users to see the source
> zones, rules, and links in effect, saving ~1MB, and dropping the overall
> default base installed file sizes by ~80% to ~20% of current, and download
> tar size by ~60% to ~40%; for all zones aggregate total installed file sizes
> are dropped by ~35% to ~65%, and download tar sizes by ~30% to ~70% of
> current:
> 
> install   tar   tzdata
>  721KB  172KB   base
>  984KB   78KB   right
>  669KB   74KB   posix
> 1367KB  444KB   source
> 3667KB  452KB   current
> 
> Please check out the announcement, cygwin list echo, source and install
> package summary web pages, cygport changes, setup entries, scallywag builds,
> and let me know if there is anything you see that could benefit from
> improvement.

Fedora Rawhide is not following this scheme.  For F40 and F41 it still
prepares single tzdata packages.  FWIW, OpenSuSE also only comes with a
single timezone package in Tumbleweed.

Comparing the Cygwin and the Fedora package, the only differences are:

 Cygwin comes with two files not in the Fedora package:

   /usr/share/zoneinfo/rearguard.zi
   /usr/share/zoneinfo/zonenow.tab

 Fedora comes with two files not in the Cygwin package:

   /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list
   /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules

That's all.  And given that space is not one of the major limiting
factors anymore...

  cyg$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo
  6.6M/usr/share/zoneinfo

  fed$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo
  4.6M  /usr/share/zoneinfo

...I do wonder a bit if this split is really necessary after all.


Corinna

Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 24 15:42, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mar 23 10:57, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Mar 21 16:15, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > On Mar 21 09:58, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > > > ..
> > > > I just gave it a try on W11. The results are even more funny than I
> > > > anticipated:
> > > > 
> > > > ...
> > > > 
> > > > So, yeah, with your observations especially on older W10 versions and
> > > > with 8.1 doing the same thing, I guess we can safely drop the extra call
> > > > to RtlGetNtVersionNumbers now.
> > > Or:
> > > Keep RtlGetVersionNumbers, compare result with RtlGetVersion and emit 
> > > debug
> > > output if both differ. This would allow to diagnose a possible future
> > > reappearance of the issue.
> > Good idea! Do you want to create a patch?
> > 
> 
> I tried, but without success. Unfortunately debug_printf() does not work
> because wincap.init() is called before get_cygwin_startup_info() which calls
> strace.activate().

small_printf should work, just needs "\r\n" in the Windows console.

But, anyway, nothing speaks aginst just sticking to the current code.
It works and probably continues to work...


Thanks,
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Re: [tz] Ubuntu drops old-style links

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps]

On Mar 23 10:38, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> It looks to me that tzset.c prioritizes the Windows label over the country,
> and it may be a better match prioritizing the country over the label, if the
> country is not 001/"", nor ZZ, which are the generic entries.

The Windows timezone is the relevant setting in the first place becasue
that's what indicvates the actual local time *as the user chose*.
The territory should only be a secondary hint to choose the right
POSIX entry.

For instance, I know people always using UTC, independently of their
territory setting. If the territory rules, this user choice would be
broken in Cygwin.

> It also is not clear what tzset should do when tzmap has a list of zones to
> choose from, for example:
> 
>   { L"Mountain Standard Time", L"CA", L"America/Edmonton
> America/Cambridge_Bay America/Inuvik" },
>   { L"Mountain Standard Time", L"US", L"America/Denver America/Boise" },
>   { L"US Mountain Standard Time", L"CA", L"America/Creston
> America/Dawson_Creek America/Fort_Nelson" },
> 
> it currently just prints the first, but perhaps it should print all relevant
> entries and the caller should handle the alternatives?

tzset is called from the shell default profile.  It has to use exactly
one, valid entry, so time works as desired without forcing interactivity.

If the user doesn't like it, the user can always override tzset's choice
in her own profile.


Corinna

Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 23 10:57, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mar 21 16:15, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mar 21 09:58, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > ..
> > I just gave it a try on W11. The results are even more funny than I
> > anticipated:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > So, yeah, with your observations especially on older W10 versions and
> > with 8.1 doing the same thing, I guess we can safely drop the extra call
> > to RtlGetNtVersionNumbers now.
> 
> Or:
> Keep RtlGetVersionNumbers, compare result with RtlGetVersion and emit debug
> output if both differ. This would allow to diagnose a possible future
> reappearance of the issue.

Good idea! Do you want to create a patch?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: [tz] Ubuntu drops old-style links

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps]

On Mar 22 10:02, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 2024-03-21 03:36, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > We're generating the conversion from Windows to POSIX timezone via
> > the conversion table from unicode.org:
> > 
> > https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/utils/tzmap-from-unicode.org
> > 
> > Plus a few (7, actually) mappings the Unicode consortium missed in
> > the list (or maybe they are available in the meantime, needs checking).
> > This is the minimum list of timezone info we need in the tzdata DB.
> 
> I generated tzmap.h and generated differences since the last update cldr ~40.
> I also searched in the latest for matches for each field attached as first.
> 
> I do not know if they will be of help as I see you have already looked at 
> tzmap.
> 
> It looks as if the match might better prioritize country code over Windows 
> label.

Which match?  I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me.

Basically, we want to generate a POSIX timezone from the current user's
Windows timezone.  This boils down to four questions:

- Is the creation of tzmap.h from unicode.org via the
  tzmap-from-unicode.org script the right thing to do or not?

- If it's the wrong thing to do, what other source do you propose and do
  you have a script to perform the conversion from this source to a
  valid tzmap.h file?

- Otherwise, is the current tzmap-from-unicode.org right or wrong in
  adding these old extra timezone/territory settings, or is even
  some combination missing?

- If so, would you mind to send a patch to fix tzmap-from-unicode.org
  accordingly?


Corinna

Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 22 18:13, Ray Satiro via Cygwin wrote:
> On 3/21/2024 11:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> >https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/commit/?id=48511f3d3847c
> 
> The code in that commit doesn't look right. RtlGetNtVersionNumbers is a void
> function

The code doesn't request a return value.

> and the third parameter may not be just the build number.

Fixed a month later:
https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/commit/?id=63f19278b998b


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sourceware test, please ignore

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someproc 1234 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD
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Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 21 09:58, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mar 20 12:39, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > You have to create an application with an application manifest not
> > > > supporting your OS.
> > > > 
> > > > For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under
> > > > Windows 8.1 before Windows 10 support was added to the Cygwin toolchain:
> > > > the manifest linked to the Cygwin executable didn't yet contain a GUID
> > > > entry for Windows 10 support.
> > > > 
> > > > In this case, RtlGetVersion returns an OS version 6.3 even when running
> > > > under the 10.0 kernel.  This behaviour exists back 'til Windows Vista.
> > > Could not reproduce the latter on Win10. I tested with recent Win10 and
> > > Win11 and also found a Win10 1511 (and Slackware 1.1.2, Win3.1, OS/2, ...)
> > > in my VM image museum.
> > > 
> > > Regardless of the exe manifest, RtlGetVersion and RtlGetNtVersionNumbers
> > > return the correct versions:
> > > 10.0.22621 (Win11 22H2)
> > > 10.0.19045 (Win10 22H2)
> > > 10.0.10586 (Win10 1511)
> > > 
> > > Without a manifest, GetVersionEx returns:
> > > 6.2.9200 (Win8)

I just gave it a try on W11. The results are even more funny than I
anticipated:

I created a simple application just calling GetVersionEx, RtlGetVersion
and RtlGetNtVersionNumbers.

Linked with our Cygwin default manifest claiming W10 compatibility, the
result is the expected:

  GetVersionEx  : 10.0.22631
  RtlGetVersion : 10.0.22631
  RtlGetNtVersionNumbers: 10.0.22631

The "Operating system context" in Task Manager is empty.

Next I linked against a Windows 8.1 manifest:

  GetVersionEx  : 6.3.9600
  RtlGetVersion : 10.0.22631
  RtlGetNtVersionNumbers: 10.0.22631

So GetVersionEx reports Windows 8.1, RtlGetVersion/ RtlGetNtVersionNumbers
both report W10.  The "Operating system context" in Task Manager reports

  "Windows 8.1"

No surprise there.

Next I linked against a Windows 7 manifest:

  GetVersionEx  : 6.2.9200
  RtlGetVersion : 10.0.22631
  RtlGetNtVersionNumbers: 10.0.22631

So GetVersionEx reports Windows 8, not Windows 7.

However, the "Operating system context" in Task Manager reports

  "Windows 7"

I also tried this with a Vista manifest:

  GetVersionEx  : 6.2.9200
  RtlGetVersion : 10.0.22631
  RtlGetNtVersionNumbers: 10.0.22631

  "Windows Vista"

So Task Manager reports the right context per the manifest, but
GetVersionEx doesn't go below Windows 8.

Same goes for Windows 10...

  GetVersionEx  : 6.2.9200
  RtlGetVersion : 10.0.19045
  RtlGetNtVersionNumbers: 10.0.19045

  "Windows Vista"

as well as for Windows 8.1:

  GetVersionEx  : 6.2.9200
  RtlGetVersion : 6.3.9600
  RtlGetNtVersionNumbers: 6.3.9600

  "Windows Vista"

So, yeah, with your observations especially on older W10 versions and
with 8.1 doing the same thing, I guess we can safely drop the extra call
to RtlGetNtVersionNumbers now.  After such a long time, I don't know
on which version of Windows we observed the problem.

For those interested in patch forensics, I searched the archives and
came up with two mail threads referring to GetVersionEx and RtlGetVersion:

  https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2013-November/211795.html
  https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2014-June/215836.html

Unfortunately I found *no* thread talking about RtlGetNtVersionNumbers,
so the only information we have now is the commit message of

  https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/commit/?id=48511f3d3847c



Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: [tz] Ubuntu drops old-style links

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps]

On Mar 20 14:59, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 2024-03-19 02:19, brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca wrote:
> > On 2024-03-18 21:12, Matt Johnson-Pint via tz wrote:
> > > I just learned that Ubuntu Noble (24.04) decided to intentionally
> > > split the tzdata package.  Old-style links such as US/Eastern are no
> > > longer included by default, but are available in the tzdata-legacy
> > > package instead.
> > > 
> > > Just thought I'd share.  I wonder if other distributions / platforms
> > > / libraries will follow suit.  What do y'all think?
> > > 
> > > See:
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> > I've been looking at that to reduce Cygwin CI and embedded build server
> > setup overhead by limiting base install data to:
> > 
> > - only the zones in zonenow.tab;
> > - optionally those in zone1970.tab not in zonenow.tab;
> > - additionally those in zone.tab in backward, and/or backzone;
> > - possibly those not in zone.tab, only in backward, and/or backzone;
> > - additions those in posix subtree, or right subtree.
> 
> As tzdata maintainer, I would like to discuss on this list first, to take
> advantage of a wide variety of experience in different environments with
> different practices and requirements, before making more definite proposals
> on the public list.
> 
> Please see the attached log for prioritized subsets of tzdata for 
> consideration:
> [...]
> What would the impact on tzset conversion from Windows to Olson tzdb be?
> We would probably have to add all of these in to any minimal install.
> I think I looked at that somewhere, sometime, not too long ago.

We're generating the conversion from Windows to POSIX timezone via
the conversion table from unicode.org:

https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/utils/tzmap-from-unicode.org

Plus a few (7, actually) mappings the Unicode consortium missed in
the list (or maybe they are available in the meantime, needs checking).
This is the minimum list of timezone info we need in the tzdata DB.

Corinna

Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 20 12:39, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > You have to create an application with an application manifest not
> > supporting your OS.
> > 
> > For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under
> > Windows 8.1 before Windows 10 support was added to the Cygwin toolchain:
> > the manifest linked to the Cygwin executable didn't yet contain a GUID
> > entry for Windows 10 support.
> > 
> > In this case, RtlGetVersion returns an OS version 6.3 even when running
> > under the 10.0 kernel.  This behaviour exists back 'til Windows Vista.
> 
> Could not reproduce the latter on Win10. I tested with recent Win10 and
> Win11 and also found a Win10 1511 (and Slackware 1.1.2, Win3.1, OS/2, ...)
> in my VM image museum.
> 
> Regardless of the exe manifest, RtlGetVersion and RtlGetNtVersionNumbers
> return the correct versions:
> 10.0.22621 (Win11 22H2)
> 10.0.19045 (Win10 22H2)
> 10.0.10586 (Win10 1511)
> 
> Without a manifest, GetVersionEx returns:
> 6.2.9200 (Win8)

Please check on commit 48511f3d3847c.  It was a real, existing problem
at the time.  I wouldn't have added the RtlGetNtVersionNumbers call
just for fun.


Corinna

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Re: GetVersionEx() depreciated, what should be used instead for Windows 7/8/10?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 19 09:18, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:01 AM Richard Campbell wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:04 AM Bill Stewart via Cygwin 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Can you please clarify the circumstances under which the RtlGetVersion
> > > function "may not return the correct values"?
> >
> > "Originally, using RtlGetVersion instead of GetVersionEx was supposed to
> > fix the fact that GetVersionInfo returns the wrong kernel version if the
> > executable has been built with an old manifest (or none at all), starting
> > with Windows 8.1.  Either this never really worked as desired and our
> > testing was flawed, or this has been changed again with Windows 10, so
> > that RtlGetVersion does the kernel faking twist as well.  Since we're
> > only reading the value in the first process in a process tree. the entire
> > process tree is running with a wrong OS version information in that case.
> >
> > Fortunately, the (undocumented) RtlGetNtVersionNumbers function is not
> > affected by this nonsense, so we simply override the OS version info
> > fields with the correct values now."
> >
> > https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=48511f3d3847c35352d09cded56e25f0c1b22bc9
> >
> 
> Interesting. I have not yet been able to find a scenario where the
> RtlGetVersion function gets "manifested" like GetVersionEx.
> 
> I wrote a small Win32 console utility for displaying and testing OS
> information (requires Windows Vista/Server 2008 or later):
> 
> https://github.com/Bill-Stewart/osinfo
> 
> It uses RtlGetVersion, and this function works correctly for me in all
> current Windows versions (Windows 10, Server 2016, Windows 11, Server 2019,
> Server 2022, etc.).
> 
> I'm not sure of the exact scenario that led to the "RtlGetVersion is
> subject to manifesting" conclusion, but I can't reproduce it.

You have to create an application with an application manifest not
supporting your OS.

For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under
Windows 8.1 before Windows 10 support was added to the Cygwin toolchain:
the manifest linked to the Cygwin executable didn't yet contain a GUID
entry for Windows 10 support.

In this case, RtlGetVersion returns an OS version 6.3 even when running
under the 10.0 kernel.  This behaviour exists back 'til Windows Vista.

Fortunately Microsoft didn't change the required manifest GUID entry
since the introduction of Windows 10.  Even Windows 11 is still using
the same GUID.


Corinna

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Re: No Win ACLs for NFS? Re: ACEs and ACLs

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 19 08:55, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 at 15:43, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 18 08:30, J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Thank you for the greatly needed assistance, but the reference to which 
> > > you
> > > have pointed me says that noacl will be ignored in the case of ntfs file
> > > systems.
> >
> > No, it doesn't say that.  It says
> >
> >   "The flag is ignored on NFS filesystems."
> >   ^^^
> > not NTFS
> 
> Do ACLs work for NFS in Cygwin, or are they turned off for NFS?

NFS uses the unofficial fattr3 interface to fetch real stat(2) info from
the remote FS, see
https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/cygwin/local_includes/nfs.h
https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/cygwin/nfs.cc#n19

> I'm also asking because the ms-nfs41-client Windows NFSv4.1 driver now
> has ACL support (like the Exceed NFSv4 driver), but it would be
> frustrating if Cygwin just turns this off.

Cygwin "doesn't turn them off".  Cygwin recognizes the filesystem as
being an NFS filesystem and uses special non-Windowsy access methods
provided by the MS_NFS client.

If you want ACL support for the NFSv4 client, I made a couple of
suggestions how to integrate stuff in Cygwin in November:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-developers/2023-November/012692.html


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Re: ACEs and ACLs

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 18 09:23, J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin wrote:
> 
> Sorry, 84-yr old eyes sometimes don't work as well.  Thanks for confirming
> that  nothing has changed with regards to these matters; clearly it is some
> change in the way Windows 11 tries to cooperate with Windows 10 in the case
> of mapped network drives being using in the file sharing mode wherein remote
> users must have ids and passwords on the target drives -- which they do and
> always have, but the key ACE entry known as NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
> is correctly specified after performing an icacls /reset, but is not longer
> correctly set after editing a file with vim across the network.  I'll keep
> looking and trying to  learn.  Thank you.

Please add the "noacl" flag where you need it and try again.  The result
is using the standard Windows security, so you should see what you
expect in that case.


Thanks,
Corinna


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Re: ACEs and ACLs

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 18 08:30, J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin wrote:
> Thank you for the greatly needed assistance, but the reference to which you
> have pointed me says that noacl will be ignored in the case of ntfs file
> systems.

No, it doesn't say that.  It says

  "The flag is ignored on NFS filesystems."
  ^^^
not NTFS

> All of mine are and that has not changed, neither has the default
> entry in fstab, which seems always to have been:
> 
> none /cygdrive cygdrive binary, posix=0, user 0 0

Well, the code in question hasn't changed for years either.


¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re: ACEs and ACLs

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 16 18:05, J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin wrote:
> [...]
> And here is the status that icacls reports back on the original, owning
> workstation
> after having use vim to modify the two files from that remote workstation.
> 
> FileExp.txt NULL SID:(DENY)(Rc,S,REA,WEA,X,DC)
>     NW10\tcorbet:(DENY)(S,RD,WD,AD,REA,WEA,X,DC)
>     NW10\tcorbet:(D,Rc,WDAC,WO,RA,WA)
>     NW10\None:(Rc,S,RA)
>     NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(RX,W)
>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(RX,W)
>     BUILTIN\Administrators:(RX,W)
>     BUILTIN\Users:(RX)
>     Everyone:(Rc,S,RA)
> 
> vimtest.txt NULL SID:(DENY)(Rc,S,WEA,X,DC)
>     NW10\tcorbet:(R,W,D,WDAC,WO)
>     NW10\None:(DENY)(S,X)
>     NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(DENY)(S,X)
>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(DENY)(S,X)
>     BUILTIN\Administrators:(DENY)(S,X)
>     BUILTIN\Users:(DENY)(S,X)
>     NW10\None:(RX)
>     NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users:(RX,W)
>     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(RX,W)
>     BUILTIN\Administrators:(RX,W)
>     BUILTIN\Users:(RX)
>     Everyone:(R)
> 
> If my understanding is correct concerning the precedence handling of an
> ACL with multiple ACEs for the same user/ID, this result from grep
> on the original, owning workstation would not surprise you:
> 
> F:\Dev\cygshoot>grep foo fileexp.txt
> grep: fileexp.txt: Permission denied
> 
> but it blows me completely away.  Clearly I no longer have an environment
> in which I can work on any file from any workstation using any Cygwin
> utilities.
> 
> What have I messed up?

The problem is that your identity is based on the SID of every single
machine, and the machines don't know the SIDs of other machines.  The
default ACL created in Cygwin is emulating POSIX permissions.  This
becomes a problem when sharing files between machines not in the
same Windows domain.

The workaround is not to use POSIX permissions on shares.  Create
matching mount points in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab.d/ and add the
"noacl" mount flag:

  https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table

Alternatively, you can also just add an fstab entry for the cygdrive
prefix which adds the "noacl" flag, see

  https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#cygdrive

but keep in mind that this also affects local paths if you access
them via the cygdrive prefix.


HTH,
Corinna

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Re: Additional odd behavior after my upgrade to the latest CYGWIN64 version

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 16 16:49, Michael Goldshteyn via Cygwin wrote:
> Cygwin handles (filename) case insensitivity in a very weird way at the
> Windows command prompt:
> --
> c:\Users\Michael>set CYGWIN=
> 
> c:\Users\Michael>printf "%q " 'a' 'A' "a" "A" a A
> a A a A a A
> 
> REM OK, so far so good, but, now:
> c:\Users\Michael>set CYGWIN=glob:ignorecase
> 
> C:\Users\Michael>printf "%q " 'a' 'A' "a" "A" a A
> a a a a a A
> 
> REM So, if I don't put a command line arg into any sort of quotes, it gets
> lower-cased for cygwin apps (from the Windows command line).
> REM I should also add that there is no file named 'a' or 'A' in the current
> working directory.
> 
> REM This behavior, of course, doesn't happen in Cygwin bash:
> --
> C:\Users\Michael>bash
> Michael@lambda /cygdrive/c/Users/Michael
> $ echo "$CYGWIN"
> glob:ignorecase
> Michael@lambda /cygdrive/c/Users/Michael
> $ printf "%q " 'a' 'A' "a" "A" a A
> a A a A a A
> $ # Output looks correct, quoted or not
> --
> The unsolicited conversion of case for quoted string is very odd, to say
> the least. If you remove the glob:ignorecase from the CYGWIN env var
> definition, use of filenames on Windows with Cygwin tools becomes
> completely case sensitive, which is very undesirable when compared to the
> fact that other Windows tools do not care about file case (i.e., case
> insensitive, but preserving, as MS puts it).

This was an ill-advised optimization attempt in glob.  I revert the
patch and pushed the change(*), so this will be fixed in Cygwin 3.5.2.

For the time being, you can also test this by installing the just
building Cygwin test release 3.6.0-0.85.g89afbb8d8af2, which should
be available in an hour or two.


Thanks,
Corinna


(*) https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/commit/?id=70375b2205

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Re: Unable to 'git push' to /git/cygwin-packages/*

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps]

On Mar 14 16:07, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 14/03/2024 15:39, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On 3/14/2024 2:42 AM, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > > On 14/03/2024 05:45, Mark Geisert via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > > I'm getting the error:
> > > > 
> > > > fatal: remote error: service not enabled: /git/cygwin-packages/sshfs
> > > > 
> > > > when I attempt 'git push' to that repository.  The same happens
> > > > with all the repositories for my packages.  It's been this way
> > > > for a couple days at least.
> > > > 
> > > > Have I forgotten some step in the connection at my end?  I'm
> > > > running ssh-agent.
> > > 
> > > This is probably due to some recent changes made on sourceware.
> > > Apologies for the inconvenience.
> 
> I forget to ask when was the last time this worked for you, so maybe
> assuming this is related is premature.
> 
> > > What is the repository URL you are trying to push to (git remote -v)?
> > 
> > /usr/src/upstaging/sshfs git remote -v
> > origin git://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/sshfs (fetch)
> > origin git://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/sshfs (push)
> 
> This maybe looks like pilot error.
> 
> We don't allow pushing using the git:// protocol (since this protocol
> doesn't do any authorization, pushes with a it are very rarely enabled)
> 
> 
> I suggest you need to do
> 
>   git push ssh://cyg...@cygwin.com:git/cygwin-packages/sshfs
> 
> to push successfully.
> 
> If that works, I suggest you memorialize that by doing
> 
>   git remote set-url origin --push
> ssh://cyg...@cygwin.com:git/cygwin-packages/sshfs
> 
> which will cause git to automatically use the ssh URL with a simple 'git
> push'.

You may also want to use https:// rather than git:// for reading
the repository these days, given the insecurity of the git protocol.

Corinna

openssh 9.7p1-1

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce]

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:

* openssh-9.7p1-1

OpenSSH is a program for logging into a remote machine and for
executing commands on a remote machine.  It can replace rlogin
and rsh, providing encrypted communication between two machines.



PLEASE READ THE BELOW FUTURE DEPRECATION NOTICE!!!



OpenSSH 9.7 has just been released. It will be available from the
mirrors listed at https://www.openssh.com/ shortly.

OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol 2.0 implementation and
includes sftp client and server support.

Once again, we would like to thank the OpenSSH community for their
continued support of the project, especially those who contributed
code or patches, reported bugs, tested snapshots or donated to the
project. More information on donations may be found at:
https://www.openssh.com/donations.html

Future deprecation notice
=

OpenSSH plans to remove support for the DSA signature algorithm in
early 2025 and compile-time disable it later this year.

DSA, as specified in the SSHv2 protocol, is inherently weak - being
limited to a 160 bit private key and use of the SHA1 digest. Its
estimated security level is only 80 bits symmetric equivalent.

OpenSSH has disabled DSA keys by default since 2015 but has retained
run-time optional support for them. DSA was the only mandatory-to-
implement algorithm in the SSHv2 RFCs[3], mostly because alternative
algorithms were encumbered by patents when the SSHv2 protocol was
specified.

This has not been the case for decades at this point and better
algorithms are well supported by all actively-maintained SSH
implementations. We do not consider the costs of maintaining DSA in
OpenSSH to be justified and hope that removing it from OpenSSH can
accelerate its wider deprecation in supporting cryptography
libraries.

This release makes DSA support in OpenSSH compile-time optional,
defaulting to on. We intend the next release to change the default
to disable DSA at compile time. The first OpenSSH release of 2025
will remove DSA support entirely.

Changes since OpenSSH 9.6
=

This release contains mostly bugfixes.

New features


 * ssh(1), sshd(8): add a "global" ChannelTimeout type that watches
   all open channels and will close all open channels if there is no
   traffic on any of them for the specified interval. This is in
   addition to the existing per-channel timeouts added recently.

   This supports situations like having both session and x11
   forwarding channels open where one may be idle for an extended
   period but the other is actively used. The global timeout could
   close both channels when both have been idle for too long.

 * All: make DSA key support compile-time optional, defaulting to on.

Bugfixes


 * sshd(8): don't append an unnecessary space to the end of subsystem
   arguments (bz3667)

 * ssh(1): fix the multiplexing "channel proxy" mode, broken when
   keystroke timing obfuscation was added. (GHPR#463)

 * ssh(1), sshd(8): fix spurious configuration parsing errors when
   options that accept array arguments are overridden (bz3657).

 * ssh-agent(1): fix potential spin in signal handler (bz3670)

 * Many fixes to manual pages and other documentation, including
   GHPR#462, GHPR#454, GHPR#442 and GHPR#441.

 * Greatly improve interop testing against PuTTY.

Portability
---

 * Improve the error message when the autoconf OpenSSL header check
   fails (bz#3668)

 * Improve detection of broken toolchain -fzero-call-used-regs support
   (bz3645).

 * Fix regress/misc/fuzz-harness fuzzers and make them compile without
   warnings when using clang16

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Please note that the SHA256 signatures are base64 encoded and not
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Re: Request for a rough release timeline for Cygwin 3.5.2

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 11 11:48, Kate Deplaix via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry to bother you all,
> 
> Following the fixes (thank you so much again) of the two critical
> issues in cygwin 3.5.0/3.5.1
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255561.html , we
> were wondering if cygwin 3.5.2 is likely to be released soon. We would
> be extremely grateful and happy for that.

Probably still this month.


Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  9 15:29, Marcin Wisnicki via Cygwin wrote:
> I did more testing and found out that the problem does not happen in
> cygwin by default because cygwin mounts with acl which doesn't do
> header sniffing while msys uses noacl.
> 
> Testing on an mp4 file in OneDrive, when I use noacl in cygwin it
> triggers the read as well.
> After upgrading to the test version the read is gone and an mp4 file
> is not executable.
> 
> Thank you!

Thanks a lot for testing.  I backported the changes (minus the lsattr(1)/
chattr(1) changes) to the 3.5 branch so it will be in released with
3.5.2 in the next few weeks.


Corinna

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Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar 11 02:28, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 14:01, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> > On Mar  5 23:38, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Always editing /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > > forth and back is not a elegant solution, aside from race conditions
> > > with other users on a system
> >
> > So, here we go again.
> >
> > - What exactly are you trying to accomplish by enumerating the accounts?
> >   Maybe you won't actually need it for your task at hand.
> 
> We're trying to do several things, including but not limited to:
> - Finding which local groups exist. Part of our customer software
> expects that certain groups exist. Unfortunately the group names vary
> between installations, and sometimes names are prefixed with site
> names. Trying to do all permutations with just getent passwd
> $iteration means too many combinations (>= 400). So just
> enumerating all local groups with getent group would be the way to go.

Then just change /etc/nsswitch.conf to enumerate "local" as well
and be done with it.

You can even go so far as to use the Windows enumerator, i.e.,

  $ net localgroup

and than script it to use its output as input to getent group
for only the groups you really need info for.


Corinna

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Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  9 16:26, Glenn Strauss via Cygwin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 02:01:06PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mar  5 23:38, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 at 14:11, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> > >  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 23 22:15, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > HOWEVER, there is another Cygwin bug:
> > > > > "getent group mywingrp1" does not list any group members, even after
> > > > > "net localgroup mywingrp1 mywinuser44 /add", which is a POSIX
> > > > > violation.
> > > >
> > > > Not a bug.  Two problems:
> > > >
> > > > - Getting members of a group can be an extremly costly operation
> > > >   in a domain or, worse, a domain forest, or even worse, if the
> > > >   domain or domain forest is remote.
> > > >
> > > > - Alonmg the same lines, getting members of a group can be extremly
> > > >   costly in big orgs with thousands of users.  Nobody want's to clutter
> > > >   up space with the list of members in the "Domain Users" group.
> > > >
> > > > - Permissions to enumerate members of a group are restricted.
> > > >   By default only admins and group members are allow to enumerate
> > > >   members and this can be restricted further by domain admins.
> > > >
> > > > Therefore we dropped even trying to populate gr_mem, considering
> > > > that even in its original form on Unix systems, it's used only
> > > > to add supplementary groups.  To do this right on Windows is even
> > > > more costly than blindly enumerating.
> > > >
> > > > It's not a bug, it's a feature :)
> > > 
> > > Could you add an option to getent so that the full lookup can be
> > > requested via command line, pls?
> > 
> > That's not possible.  getent just calls getpwent/getgrent.
> > 
> > > Always editing /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > > forth and back is not a elegant solution, aside from race conditions
> > > with other users on a system
> > 
> > So, here we go again.
> > 
> > - What exactly are you trying to accomplish by enumerating the accounts?
> >   Maybe you won't actually need it for your task at hand.
> > 
> > - Why do you have to change nsswitch.conf "back and forth"?
> >   Just change it once and you're done.
> > 
> > 
> > Corinna
> 
> Hello
> > > Dan Shelton - Cluster Specialist Win/Lin/Bsd
> 
> > > Always editing /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > > forth and back is not a elegant solution, aside from race conditions
> > > with other users on a system
> 
> Please check the man page for getent.
> 
> man getent
> getent --help
> 
> You can use -s or --service to override the service used without
> editing nsswitch.conf.  The man page on Linux provides an example
> with a bit more details than the man page for getent under cygwin.
> https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/getent.1.html

The -s option is just available for compatibility, but otherwise a no-op
on Cygwin.  The -i option works as upstream, -w is a Cygwin-only option.

The Cygwin getent.1 man page is a bit old, given it's taken from
upstream and just slightly adapted from glibc 2.18.90, a good 10 years
ago.  The upstream man page at the time did not document the options for
some reason.  These days it documents the options, so we could fetch
this and create a new manpage from there.


Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  8 14:56, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mar  8 08:15, Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin wrote:
> > On 3/8/2024 7:52 AM, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Am 08.03.2024 um 11:37 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin:
> > > >    FILE_OPEN_NO_RECALL (0x0040)
> > > > [...]
> > > > This sounds like we could simply add this flag to all NtOpenFile
> > > > used for path conversion or stat-like calls, without having to care
> > > > for any file attributes specificially.
> > > > 
> > > > Does that make sense?
> > > Sounds good, without even studying the other details...
> > > I speculate some more handling would still be needed to avoid executable
> > > detection via magic tags.
> > > 
> > Agreed.   FILE_OPEN_NO_RECALL has been defined for at least a decade but was
> > not documented by Microsoft relatively recently.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback, guys.
> 
> > Another suggestion would be to try opening the file with
> > FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES instead of GENERIC_READ if the file data is not
> > required.  See
> > 
> > https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/commit/4fb8e7ce07d243ccd95de0d66da551538a794493
> 
> Cygwin uses the minimum of required permissions in NtCreateFile/
> NtOpenFile calls anyway.
> 
> I'm just running a test cygwin DLL locally with a lot of added
> FILE_OPEN_NO_RECALL bits and a couple of added attribute checks for
> being offline to allow skipping some code.
> 
> I think I'll push this change in a bit so we get a test release out
> so people using OneDrive can test.

I pushed this change as well as a followup change to make sure we don't
inadvertently recall an offline file.  I also added handling for the
Pinned and Unpinned attributes to chattr(1) and lsattr(1).

The full set of changes can be tested by installing the Cygwin test
release 3.6.0-0.77.g06aa5a751682.

Please give it a try.  If you encounter a situation which still results
in recalling an offline file in a situation which doesn't qualify for
it, please report.  We will have to analyze that situation further
then.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  8 08:15, Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin wrote:
> On 3/8/2024 7:52 AM, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote:
> > Am 08.03.2024 um 11:37 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin:
> > > Yesterday I stumbled over a certain NtCreateFile flag:
> > > 
> > >    FILE_OPEN_NO_RECALL (0x0040)
> > > 
> > >  Instructs any filters that perform offline storage or
> > > virtualization
> > >  to not recall the contents of the file as a result of this open.
> > > 
> > > MS-CIFS described it like this:
> > > 
> > >    FILE_OPEN_NO_RECALL
> > >    0x0040
> > > 
> > >  In a hierarchical storage management environment, this option
> > >  requests that the file SHOULD NOT be recalled from tertiary storage
> > >  such as tape. A file recall can take up to several minutes in a
> > >  hierarchical storage management environment. The clients can
> > > specify
> > >  this option to avoid such delays.
> > > 
> > > This sounds like we could simply add this flag to all NtOpenFile
> > > used for path conversion or stat-like calls, without having to care
> > > for any file attributes specificially.
> > > 
> > > Does that make sense?
> > Sounds good, without even studying the other details...
> > I speculate some more handling would still be needed to avoid executable
> > detection via magic tags.
> > 
> Agreed.   FILE_OPEN_NO_RECALL has been defined for at least a decade but was
> not documented by Microsoft relatively recently.

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

> Another suggestion would be to try opening the file with
> FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES instead of GENERIC_READ if the file data is not
> required.  See
> 
> https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL/commit/4fb8e7ce07d243ccd95de0d66da551538a794493

Cygwin uses the minimum of required permissions in NtCreateFile/
NtOpenFile calls anyway.

I'm just running a test cygwin DLL locally with a lot of added
FILE_OPEN_NO_RECALL bits and a couple of added attribute checks for
being offline to allow skipping some code.

I think I'll push this change in a bit so we get a test release out
so people using OneDrive can test.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi Jeffrey,

On Mar  6 13:55, Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin wrote:
> On 3/6/2024 12:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > We can add an explicit call to
> > 
> >RtlSetProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode (PHCM_EXPOSE_PLACEHOLDERS);
> > [...]
> Files and directories that are placeholders should have either the
> FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_DATA_ACCESS or FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_OPEN file
> attributes set. When these attributes are set, applications and mini filters
> are advised not to "read" or "open" the files or directories unless they
> absolutely need to because doing so will cause the placeholder to be
> replaced by an object containing the actual data which might take a long
> time to fetch,

Yesterday I stumbled over a certain NtCreateFile flag:

  FILE_OPEN_NO_RECALL (0x0040)

Instructs any filters that perform offline storage or virtualization
to not recall the contents of the file as a result of this open.

MS-CIFS described it like this:

  FILE_OPEN_NO_RECALL
  0x0040

In a hierarchical storage management environment, this option
requests that the file SHOULD NOT be recalled from tertiary storage
such as tape. A file recall can take up to several minutes in a
hierarchical storage management environment. The clients can specify
this option to avoid such delays.

This sounds like we could simply add this flag to all NtOpenFile
used for path conversion or stat-like calls, without having to care
for any file attributes specificially.

Does that make sense?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi Jeffrey,


apart from the attribute stuff...


On Mar  6 13:55, Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin wrote:
> The default ProcessPlaceholderCompaibilityMode is PHCM_EXPOSE_PLACEHOLDERS
> which makes the FILE_ATTRIBUTE flags and reparse tags visible. Microsoft
> maintains a database of processes for which PHCM_DISGUISE_PLACEHOLDER is set
> which hides that information. Its unclear to me that explicitly setting the
> placeholder compatibility mode is useful.

What I see as a problem here is this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/ntifs/nf-ntifs-rtlsetprocessplaceholdercompatibilitymode

Quote:

  "Most Windows applications see exposed placeholders by default. For
   
   compatibility reasons, Windows may decide that certain applications
  ^^
   see disguised placeholders by default."

But then again, in other news from Microsoft:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cfapi/build-a-cloud-file-sync-engine#compatibility-with-applications-that-use-reparse-points

Quote:

  "[...] the cloud files API always hides its reparse points from all
 
   applications except for sync engines and processes whose main image
   ^^^
   resides under %systemroot%. Applications that understand reparse
   ^^^
   points correctly can force the platform to expose cloud files API
   reparse points using RtlSetProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode or
   RtlSetThreadProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode.

Considering these two statements, it's totally unclear to a process, if
it just defaults to "exposed" or "disguised".

Fortunately we can ask Windows by calling the
RtlQueryProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode() function, right?

Lets have a look into the documentation at
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/ntifs/nf-ntifs-rtlqueryprocessplaceholdercompatibilitymode

Quote:

  "Return value

  This function returns the process's placeholder compatibily mode
  (PHCM_xxx), or a negative value on error (PCHM_ERROR_xxx). Contains
  one of the following values:

  Compatibility Mode   Value
  PHCM_APPLICATION_DEFAULT   0
  PHCM_DISGUISE_PLACEHOLDER  1
  PHCM_EXPOSE_PLACEHOLDERS   2
  PHCM_MAX   2
  PHCM_ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER  -1
  PHCM_ERROR_NO_TEB -2"

So I called the function right at the start of the Cygwin DLL, and it
returns the value 0, i. e., PHCM_APPLICATION_DEFAULT.

At this point the process *still* has no idea if placeholders are
exposed or disguised.  What a great API! \o/

So, from the above, and if we really want to be sure that placeholders
will be exposed, I don't see any way around calling
RtlSetProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode(PHCM_EXPOSE_PLACEHOLDERS)
explicitely at DLL startup.

What do you think?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi Jeffrey,


looks like writing our mails overlapped:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-March/255622.html

On Mar  6 13:55, Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin wrote:
> On 3/6/2024 12:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > We can add an explicit call to
> > 
> >RtlSetProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode (PHCM_EXPOSE_PLACEHOLDERS);
> > 
> > and we can recognize the IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER and
> > IO_REPARSE_TAG_CLOUD_* tags during symlink evaluation, but even then
> > we still have to know what the reparse point buffer actually contains.
> > 
> > Given that the content of reparse points with these reparse tags are
> > undocumented, some people using cloud services should examine these
> > reparse points so we can add some suitable code to Cygwin.
> > 
> > 
> > Corinna
> I'm not an expert in this area by any means but here are my recollections
> from when Microsoft presented in-person on cloud placeholders to filter and
> filesystem developers many years ago.
> 
> Files and directories that are placeholders should have either the
> FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_DATA_ACCESS or FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_OPEN file
> attributes set. When these attributes are set, applications and mini filters
> are advised not to "read" or "open" the files or directories unless they
> absolutely need to

Per 
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/file-attribute-constants
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_OPEN only appears in directory listing
classes, but not in standard FILE_BASIC_INFORMATION and alike.
That's a bit of a problem considering how we check files during
path conversion.

The MSDN article doesn't state the same for
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_DATA_ACCESS, which is good, I think.

But I'm a bit puzzled then in terms of FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE.  Is it
not used for OneDrive files?

> [...]
> I'm not sure that exposing the object as a symlink is a good idea.

Yeah, that's what I realized as well, see my aforementioned mail.

> Perhaps the question that needs to be asked is whether there are opens that
> can be skipped if an object is known to not be locally present (either of
> the FILE_ATTRIBUTE flags are set)?

This may be the way to go, see my mail.  It wouldn't be much of
a problem to check all attribute bits, i.e. FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE,
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_DATA_ACCESS and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_RECALL_ON_OPEN.
Maybe that's what we should do.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  6 18:19, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mar  6 06:54, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> > On 2024-03-06 06:28, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Mar  6 14:22, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > Given these placeholder files are actually reparse points of type
> > > > IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER, we can handle them as symbolic links.
> > > > 
> > > > However, the structure of the IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER reparse
> > > > data buffer is undocumented.  It would be helpful if somebody using
> > > > OneDrive would examine the content of the attached REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER.
> > > > 
> > > > > [2] 
> > > > > https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/blob/msys2-3.4.10/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/disk_file.cc#L548
> > > > 
> > > > The NtReadFile call at this point is not the problem.  It would be
> > > > helpful to point to Cygwin's source instead of MSYS2, btw.
> > > 
> > > Oh, btw., this is from
> > > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-fscc/c8e77b37-3909-4fe6-a4ea-2b9d423b1ee4:
> > > 
> > >IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER
> > >0x8015
> > > 
> > >  Obsolete.
> > >  -
> > >  Used by Windows Shell for legacy placeholder files in Windows 8.1.
> > >  Server-side interpretation only, not meaningful over the wire.
> > > 
> > > So even if we support them, what is their replacement in W10 and later?
> > 
> > May or not help:
> > 
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59152220/cant-get-reparse-point-information-for-the-onedrive-folder
> 
> We can add an explicit call to
> 
>   RtlSetProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode (PHCM_EXPOSE_PLACEHOLDERS);
> 
> and we can recognize the IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER and
> IO_REPARSE_TAG_CLOUD_* tags during symlink evaluation, but even then
> we still have to know what the reparse point buffer actually contains.
> 
> Given that the content of reparse points with these reparse tags are
> undocumented, some people using cloud services should examine these
> reparse points so we can add some suitable code to Cygwin.

Reading further on this it seems that one cannot easily compare these
reparse points with symlinks.

The tag values are 0x8015 for IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER and
0x901AL up to 0x9000F01AL for the IO_REPARSE_TAG_CLOUD_* tags.  None
of them have the name surrogate bit set, so they don't "represent
another named entity in the system".  In other words, these reparse
points represent themselves rather than pointing to some other file, as
symlinks do.

Additionally the IO_REPARSE_TAG_CLOUD_* tags all have the directory bit
set so it seems they are used on the parent(?) directory of the local
OneDrive copy only, but not on the files inside it.

Bottom line:

I wonder if the real deal is not the reparse tag and the reparse
content, but whether or not the file has the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE flag
set.

If so, we can try to disable any action within path conversion, as 
well as in our stat(2) and readdir(3) implementation which would
trigger onlining an offline file.

Can anybody confirm that the idea is right, or if I'm something missing?


Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  6 06:54, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2024-03-06 06:28, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mar  6 14:22, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Given these placeholder files are actually reparse points of type
> > > IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER, we can handle them as symbolic links.
> > > 
> > > However, the structure of the IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER reparse
> > > data buffer is undocumented.  It would be helpful if somebody using
> > > OneDrive would examine the content of the attached REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER.
> > > 
> > > > [2] 
> > > > https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/blob/msys2-3.4.10/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/disk_file.cc#L548
> > > 
> > > The NtReadFile call at this point is not the problem.  It would be
> > > helpful to point to Cygwin's source instead of MSYS2, btw.
> > 
> > Oh, btw., this is from
> > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-fscc/c8e77b37-3909-4fe6-a4ea-2b9d423b1ee4:
> > 
> >IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER
> >0x8015
> > 
> >  Obsolete.
> >  -
> >  Used by Windows Shell for legacy placeholder files in Windows 8.1.
> >  Server-side interpretation only, not meaningful over the wire.
> > 
> > So even if we support them, what is their replacement in W10 and later?
> 
> May or not help:
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59152220/cant-get-reparse-point-information-for-the-onedrive-folder

We can add an explicit call to

  RtlSetProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode (PHCM_EXPOSE_PLACEHOLDERS);

and we can recognize the IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER and
IO_REPARSE_TAG_CLOUD_* tags during symlink evaluation, but even then
we still have to know what the reparse point buffer actually contains.

Given that the content of reparse points with these reparse tags are
undocumented, some people using cloud services should examine these
reparse points so we can add some suitable code to Cygwin.


Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  6 14:22, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mar  5 19:54, Marcin Wisnicki via Cygwin wrote:
> > If I invoke ls or anything else that does stat inside OneDrive folder
> > it will trigger download of all files.
> > 
> > OneDrive uses placeholder files[1] to represent remote files.
> > 
> > I'm guessing reading file content in stat is to support detection of
> > actually executable files as in here[2]?
> > 
> > I think this should be disabled on non-hydrated placeholder files.
> > Running `find` or 'ls -R` and having your entire OneDrive downloaded
> > is extremely problematic.
> > 
> > I could live without executable scripts in the OneDrive folder and
> > it's easy to mark files as always offline to solve it.
> > 
> > Another idea is to skip checking files with extensions known to be
> > non-executable such as jpg (or just any extensions that is not known
> > to be executable).
> 
> Nothing of this makes sense from a POSIX library POV.  The library can
> either not handle placeholder files specially, as today, or it can
> handle them all the same way.
> 
> Given these placeholder files are actually reparse points of type
> IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER, we can handle them as symbolic links.
> 
> However, the structure of the IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER reparse
> data buffer is undocumented.  It would be helpful if somebody using
> OneDrive would examine the content of the attached REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER.
> 
> > [2] 
> > https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/blob/msys2-3.4.10/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/disk_file.cc#L548
> 
> The NtReadFile call at this point is not the problem.  It would be
> helpful to point to Cygwin's source instead of MSYS2, btw.

Oh, btw., this is from
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-fscc/c8e77b37-3909-4fe6-a4ea-2b9d423b1ee4:

  IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER
  0x8015

Obsolete.
-
Used by Windows Shell for legacy placeholder files in Windows 8.1.
Server-side interpretation only, not meaningful over the wire.

So even if we support them, what is their replacement in W10 and later?


Corinna

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Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  5 19:54, Marcin Wisnicki via Cygwin wrote:
> If I invoke ls or anything else that does stat inside OneDrive folder
> it will trigger download of all files.
> 
> OneDrive uses placeholder files[1] to represent remote files.
> 
> I'm guessing reading file content in stat is to support detection of
> actually executable files as in here[2]?
> 
> I think this should be disabled on non-hydrated placeholder files.
> Running `find` or 'ls -R` and having your entire OneDrive downloaded
> is extremely problematic.
> 
> I could live without executable scripts in the OneDrive folder and
> it's easy to mark files as always offline to solve it.
> 
> Another idea is to skip checking files with extensions known to be
> non-executable such as jpg (or just any extensions that is not known
> to be executable).

Nothing of this makes sense from a POSIX library POV.  The library can
either not handle placeholder files specially, as today, or it can
handle them all the same way.

Given these placeholder files are actually reparse points of type
IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER, we can handle them as symbolic links.

However, the structure of the IO_REPARSE_TAG_FILE_PLACEHOLDER reparse
data buffer is undocumented.  It would be helpful if somebody using
OneDrive would examine the content of the attached REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER.

> [2] 
> https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/blob/msys2-3.4.10/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/disk_file.cc#L548

The NtReadFile call at this point is not the problem.  It would be
helpful to point to Cygwin's source instead of MSYS2, btw.


Corinna

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Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  5 23:38, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 at 14:11, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 23 22:15, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > HOWEVER, there is another Cygwin bug:
> > > "getent group mywingrp1" does not list any group members, even after
> > > "net localgroup mywingrp1 mywinuser44 /add", which is a POSIX
> > > violation.
> >
> > Not a bug.  Two problems:
> >
> > - Getting members of a group can be an extremly costly operation
> >   in a domain or, worse, a domain forest, or even worse, if the
> >   domain or domain forest is remote.
> >
> > - Alonmg the same lines, getting members of a group can be extremly
> >   costly in big orgs with thousands of users.  Nobody want's to clutter
> >   up space with the list of members in the "Domain Users" group.
> >
> > - Permissions to enumerate members of a group are restricted.
> >   By default only admins and group members are allow to enumerate
> >   members and this can be restricted further by domain admins.
> >
> > Therefore we dropped even trying to populate gr_mem, considering
> > that even in its original form on Unix systems, it's used only
> > to add supplementary groups.  To do this right on Windows is even
> > more costly than blindly enumerating.
> >
> > It's not a bug, it's a feature :)
> 
> Could you add an option to getent so that the full lookup can be
> requested via command line, pls?

That's not possible.  getent just calls getpwent/getgrent.

> Always editing /etc/nsswitch.conf
> forth and back is not a elegant solution, aside from race conditions
> with other users on a system

So, here we go again.

- What exactly are you trying to accomplish by enumerating the accounts?
  Maybe you won't actually need it for your task at hand.

- Why do you have to change nsswitch.conf "back and forth"?
  Just change it once and you're done.


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Re: UNIX nobody/nogroup mapping to which Windows SID/account?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Mar  3 14:45, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How can we map UNIX "nobody"/"nogroup" to Win32 SIDs/accounts? Cygwin
> has entries for "nobody" in /etc/passwd and "nogroup" in /etc/group,
> but these accounts have SIDs returned by /usr/bin/getent passwd and
> /usr/bin/getent group which LookupAccountSidA() does not recognise.
> 
> So what is the correct Win32 solution?

I urge you to read the entire thread starting at

https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2016-06/msg00347.html

There's a *LOT* of information in there in terms of discussing and
creating the nobody/nogroup mapping.

Bottom line is, there's no nobody account equivalent on Windows and no
resolvable SID/Name pair.  Thus, we decided to use the SID S-1-0-65534
mapped to uid/gid 65534 for this purpose.  This doesn't matter to native
Windows, it's just some foreign SID.  But it's resolvable inside Cygwin:

  $ getent passwd S-1-0-65534
  no+body:*:65534:65534:U-no\body,S-1-0-65534:/:/sbin/nologin
  $  getent group S-1-0-65534
  no+body:S-1-0-65534:65534:


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Re: openat(O_DIRECT) supported in Cygwin?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 27 17:46, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does Cygwin support openat(O_DIRECT)? Which effect does O_DIRECT in
> Cygwin have, and which underlying Windows API is used?

https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/base.cc#n587


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Re: How can I get the group SID for a file in cmd.exe (powershell is not an option)?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 27 15:41, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> Good afternoon!
> 
> How can I get the group SID for a file in cmd.exe (powershell is not an 
> option)?
> Is it possible to add an option to ls -l to list the user/group SIDs too?

No, but you can use Cygwin tools:

 getent -w group $(ls -gn foo | awk '{print $3}') | awk -F: '{print $4}'


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Re: passwd/group/grent fixes for Cygwin 3.5.1?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 27 04:21, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 10:18, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 26 04:44, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Can these 3 commits please be backported to the Cygwin 3.5.1 branch?
> > >
> > > 4 days agoCorinna VinschenCygwin: getgrent/getpwent: avoid local
> > > enumeration...commit | commitdiff | tree
> > > 4 days agoCorinna VinschenCygwin: getgrent: fix local SAM enumeration
> > > on domain...commit | commitdiff | tree
> > > 5 days agoCorinna VinschenCygwin: passwd/group: drop Capability
> > > SIDscommit | commitdiff | tree
> >
> > Did changing db_enum in /etc/nsswitch.conf help on your test machine?
> 
> Yes, just adding "local" to db_enum worked, but it is not much of a

Thanks, good to know.

> solution since I need Administrator rights on the target machine,
> which is not going to happen.

If you're not admin, why do you have to enumerate accounts?  This
is usually not an action required by standard applications.

> Why are local groups excluded by default?

Because enumerating local group means to enumerate the entire AD
group list on DCs, which is not feasible in some scenarios.  And
there is a way to configure this by changing /etc/nsswitch.conf.
If you need this on machines you're not admin of, why not just
ask the admin to enable this?


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Re: cygwin1.dll 3.5.0-1 appears to cause spurious "error 127" with make 4.4.1

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 26 20:08, Dimitry Andric via Cygwin wrote:
> On 26 Feb 2024, at 20:03, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:
> > 
> > On Feb 26 17:34, Dimitry Andric via Cygwin wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> After a recent upgrade of a Cygwin installation, including cygwin1.dll
> >> (see https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255308.html) to
> >> 3.5.0-1, I now get spurious "error 127" messages from (Cygwin's copy of)
> >> GNU make 4.4.1-2, when it starts external processes and those external
> >> processes exit with a zero exit code.
> >> 
> >> For example, a very simple Makefile:
> >> 
> >> all:
> >> cmd /c echo done
> >> 
> >> Running this a few times in a Cygwin bash prompt, gives:
> >> [...]
> >>  make: *** [Makefile:2: all] Error 127
> > 
> > This is probably what has been fixed for 3.5.1 already in patch
> > aa73e1152426 ("Cygwin: console: Fix exit code for non-cygwin process.")
> > 
> > For testing, please install the most recent test release
> > cygwin-3.6.0-0.62.gc2f6c0415501 via the Cygwin installer and try again.
> 
> Yes, I tried that and it fixes it, thanks!

Great, thanks for your feedback!


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Re: cygwin1.dll 3.5.0-1 appears to cause spurious "error 127" with make 4.4.1

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 26 17:34, Dimitry Andric via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After a recent upgrade of a Cygwin installation, including cygwin1.dll
> (see https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-February/255308.html) to
> 3.5.0-1, I now get spurious "error 127" messages from (Cygwin's copy of)
> GNU make 4.4.1-2, when it starts external processes and those external
> processes exit with a zero exit code.
> 
> For example, a very simple Makefile:
> 
> all:
>   cmd /c echo done
> 
> Running this a few times in a Cygwin bash prompt, gives:
> [...]
>   make: *** [Makefile:2: all] Error 127

This is probably what has been fixed for 3.5.1 already in patch
aa73e1152426 ("Cygwin: console: Fix exit code for non-cygwin process.")

For testing, please install the most recent test release
cygwin-3.6.0-0.62.gc2f6c0415501 via the Cygwin installer and try again.


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Re: Will all SIDs fit into |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| bytes ? / was: Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 25 22:04, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:57 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 24 15:38, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 8:11 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> > >  wrote:
> > > > On Feb 22 18:38, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > If I switch the current user's group with /usr/bin/newgrp, how can a
> > > > > (native) Win32 process use
> > > > > |GetTokenInformation(GetCurrentThreadToken(), ...)| to find out which
> > > > > group is the new "current group" (e.g. which |TokenInformationClass|
> > > > > should I use) ?
> > > >
> > > >   PSID sidbuf = (PSID) alloca (SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE);
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Win32/NT API question: All known SIDs will fit into
> > > |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| bytes, right ? I'm asking because right now
> > > the ms-nfs41-client code assumes that all SIDs use a variable amount
> > > of memory, and we always have to ask the Win32/NT API about the number
> > > of bytes to allocate. If |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| is the global maximum
> > > limit for all Windows versions, then we could simplify the code a
> > > lot...
> >
> > Yes.  ACLs are size restricted to 64K, though, but that shouldn't be
> > much of a problem usally.
> 
> Erm... why ACLs? I was asking about the memory allocation size for an SID.

I know, and I wrote "Yes".

I mentioned ACLs because ACLs consist of SIDs and if all SIDs take
SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE bytes... well, no worries.


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Re: passwd/group/grent fixes for Cygwin 3.5.1?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 26 04:44, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Can these 3 commits please be backported to the Cygwin 3.5.1 branch?
> 
> 4 days agoCorinna VinschenCygwin: getgrent/getpwent: avoid local
> enumeration...commit | commitdiff | tree
> 4 days agoCorinna VinschenCygwin: getgrent: fix local SAM enumeration
> on domain...commit | commitdiff | tree
> 5 days agoCorinna VinschenCygwin: passwd/group: drop Capability
> SIDscommit | commitdiff | tree

Did changing db_enum in /etc/nsswitch.conf help on your test machine?

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Re: Will all SIDs fit into |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| bytes ? / was: Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 24 15:38, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 8:11 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> > On Feb 22 18:38, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> > > If I switch the current user's group with /usr/bin/newgrp, how can a
> > > (native) Win32 process use
> > > |GetTokenInformation(GetCurrentThreadToken(), ...)| to find out which
> > > group is the new "current group" (e.g. which |TokenInformationClass|
> > > should I use) ?
> >
> >   PSID sidbuf = (PSID) alloca (SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE);
> [snip]
> 
> Win32/NT API question: All known SIDs will fit into
> |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| bytes, right ? I'm asking because right now
> the ms-nfs41-client code assumes that all SIDs use a variable amount
> of memory, and we always have to ask the Win32/NT API about the number
> of bytes to allocate. If |SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE| is the global maximum
> limit for all Windows versions, then we could simplify the code a
> lot...

Yes.  ACLs are size restricted to 64K, though, but that shouldn't be
much of a problem usally.


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Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 23 22:15, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> HOWEVER, there is another Cygwin bug:
> "getent group mywingrp1" does not list any group members, even after
> "net localgroup mywingrp1 mywinuser44 /add", which is a POSIX
> violation.

Not a bug.  Two problems:

- Getting members of a group can be an extremly costly operation
  in a domain or, worse, a domain forest, or even worse, if the 
  domain or domain forest is remote.

- Alonmg the same lines, getting members of a group can be extremly
  costly in big orgs with thousands of users.  Nobody want's to clutter
  up space with the list of members in the "Domain Users" group.

- Permissions to enumerate members of a group are restricted.
  By default only admins and group members are allow to enumerate
  members and this can be restricted further by domain admins.

Therefore we dropped even trying to populate gr_mem, considering
that even in its original form on Unix systems, it's used only
to add supplementary groups.  To do this right on Windows is even
more costly than blindly enumerating.

It's not a bug, it's a feature :)


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Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 23 19:45, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 4:47 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> > On Feb 23 14:03, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Do you have any idea what is going wrong in this case ?
> >
> > Not sure about that.  I'm not familiar with driver development under
> > Windows.
> 
> Me neither, I'm still new to this whole Windows kernel stuff (coming
> from SUN engineering), but as we need a NFSv4 filesystem
> client at work I'm basically forced at knifepoint to learn as fast as
> I can... ;-/
> 
> > I'd expect that you get the token of the calling thread or, in
> > this case, process as is.
> 
> I think it's the calling thread which makes the Win32 syscall, then
> the MiniRedirector driver (nfs41_driver.sys) gets that security
> context, and uses that to set the impersonation stuff when making the
> upcall to the userland part (nfsd_debug.exe), so that daemon thread
> can impersonate the caller.
> 
> > However, did you try this with a primary group SID being part of the
> > token's supplementary group list, or did you try this with some
> > arbitrary group SID?
> 
> I tried it like this:
> 1. On the Windows machine I created these two new groups:
>  snip 
> WINHOST1:~$ net localgroup cygwingrp1 /add
> WINHOST1:~$ net localgroup cygwingrp2 /add
> WINHOST1:~$ getent group cygwingrp1
> cygwingrp1:S-1-5-21-3286904461-66123-4220857270-1003:197611:
> WINHOST1:~$ getent group cygwingrp2
> cygwingrp2:S-1-5-21-3286904461-66123-4220857270-1004:197612:
>  snip 
> 
> On the Linux NFSv4 server side I added these groups too, and added
> group membership for the matching user:
>  snip 
> root@DERFWNB4966:~# groupadd -g 197611 cygwingrp1
> root@DERFWNB4966:~# groupadd -g 197612 cygwingrp2
> root@DERFWNB4966:~# usermod -a -G cygwingrp1 roland_mainz
> root@DERFWNB4966:~# usermod -a -G cygwingrp2 roland_mainz
>  snip 
> 
> After that /usr/bin/chgrp on Cygwin works on the NFSv4.1 filesystem,
> but if I do a /usr/bin/newgrp+/usr/bin/touch it will not create files
> with that new group, because nfsd_debug.exe only sees the default
> primary group, not the new primary group set by /usr/bin/newgrp.
> 
> Or is there a mistake - do I have to add the current user to the
> Windows localgroup first somehow (like usermod on Linux) ?

Yes, there's a mistake, but in some way it's not your fault.

You have to make sure that the user calling newgrp is member in the
group *and* it has to be in the current user token's TOKEN_GROUP list.

The fact that it (looks like it) works on Cygwin does not mean it
actually worked on the OS level.  See below.

> > I toyed around a bit with this in user space, and it seems I
> > misinterpreted the results when I added the newgrp(1) tool.  The primary
> > group in the token *must* be member of the token's supplementary group
> > list.
> 
> Like on UNIX, right ?

No.  On UNIX it depends if you're a privileged process with the
CAP_SETGID capability.  If so, you can set the pgrp to any arbitrary
group without being asked for credentials.  If you're non-priv'ed,
you can change to any group from the supplementary group list without
being asked for credentials, *or* you're asked for credentials (group
password).

> > The fact that it looks like it works in Cygwin to set the pgrp to
> > an arbitrary SID is apparently based on incorrect error handling.
> >
> > I will fix this in the next couple of days.
> 
> Thanks :-)

In fact I can't fix it and here's why:

Windows only allows to set the new primary group to a group which is
already in the TOKEN_GROUP list of the manipulated user token.  Even
a privileged account can't do that.  Only creating a new token from
scratch will do this.

However, there's a problem.  Consider the OpenSSH server sshd.  It
switches the user account basically like this:

  if (setgid(newgid) != 0)
ERROR;
  if (setuid(newuid) !=0)
ERROR;

Only after the setuid(2) call, Cygwin has full information to create the
new token for the process of the user just logging in.  So during the
setgid(2) call, Cygwin can only operate on the token of the service
account running sshd.

Now, if setgid(2) would fail if the group is not in the user token
of the current effective account, sshd would practically always fail.

So what Cygwin does is to fake success in setgid(2) even if switching
the pgrp in the token failed.  It just stores the information in its
internal user account representation.  Then, when setuid(2) gets called,
it will try to rectify this in the new user's token.

That's why setgid(2) always succeeds if the group exists.  We just don't
have a better way to implement the user account switch.

I just pushed a patch which lets newgrp(1) fail if the gro

Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 23 14:03, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 8:11 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> > On Feb 22 18:38, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> > > If I switch the current user's group with /usr/bin/newgrp, how can a
> > > (native) Win32 process use
> > > |GetTokenInformation(GetCurrentThreadToken(), ...)| to find out which
> > > group is the new "current group" (e.g. which |TokenInformationClass|
> > > should I use) ?
> >
> >   PSID sidbuf = (PSID) alloca (SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE);
> >   NTSTATUS status;
> >   ULONG size;
> >
> >   status = NtQueryInformationToken (hProcToken, TokenPrimaryGroup,
> > sidbuf, SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE,
> > );
> 
> Well, it works in the case of an "hello world" application, but if I
> stuff that into the nfsd_daemon (NFSv4.1 ms-nfs41-client client
> daemon) it always prints the default primary group, even if the
> current thread should impersonate another user - or in this case even
> the same user, but a different primary group (e.g. see
> https://github.com/kofemann/ms-nfs41-client/blob/master/sys/nfs41_driver.c#L1367).
> 
> Do you have any idea what is going wrong in this case ?

Not sure about that.  I'm not familiar with driver development under
Windows.  I'd expect that you get the token of the calling thread or, in
this case, process as is.

However, did you try this with a primary group SID being part of the
token's supplementary group list, or did you try this with some
arbitrary group SID?

I toyed around a bit with this in user space, and it seems I
misinterpreted the results when I added the newgrp(1) tool.  The primary
group in the token *must* be member of the token's supplementary group
list.

The fact that it looks like it works in Cygwin to set the pgrp to
an arbitrary SID is apparently based on incorrect error handling.

I will fix this in the next couple of days.


Corinna

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Re: BUG: Cygwin getent group refuses to list group added with net localgroup mygrp1 /add

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 23 09:10, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 at 21:45, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 20 17:24, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 at 10:57, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> > >  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 20 05:13, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > Hello!
> > > > >
> > > > > I think I found a rather nasty bug:
> > > > > 1. Add a new group with "net localgroup mygrp1 /add"
> > > > > 2. Then list all groups with "getent group", the new group mygrp1 will
> > > > > not show up. "getent group mygrp1" will list it, but this is useless
> > > > > in my case, as I need the group listed by "getent group"
> > > >
> > > > I guess we can rule out a domain controller but is this a standalone
> > > > machine or a domain member machine?
> > >
> > > Standalone test machine, stock Windows 10 installed 2 days ago,
> > > current patches, Cygwin 3.5 from 2 days ago.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > What's the setting of your /etc/nsswitch.conf?
> > >
> > > Only comments in that file, i.e. empty
> >
> > Please set the db_enum: line to
> >
> >   db_enum: all
> >
> > and try again after exiting from the shell window.  Have a look at
> > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch
> > for the settings.  By default account enumeration only returns
> > the bare minimum for speed.
> >
> > Btw, there *is* a bug in that code, but it affects only domain
> > menber machines, afaics.
> 
> I saw you did a couple of commits related to "getent group". Is any of
> these commits fixing the problem that a new Win32 local group created
> with "net localgroup mygrp1 /add"  does not show up in the output of
> "getent group"?

Did you read my previous reply and tried what I wrote?


Corinna

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Re: Switching groups with newgrp - how to get the new group with |GetTokenInformation()| ?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 22 18:38, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> 
> If I switch the current user's group with /usr/bin/newgrp, how can a
> (native) Win32 process use
> |GetTokenInformation(GetCurrentThreadToken(), ...)| to find out which
> group is the new "current group" (e.g. which |TokenInformationClass|
> should I use) ?

  PSID sidbuf = (PSID) alloca (SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE);
  NTSTATUS status;
  ULONG size;

  status = NtQueryInformationToken (hProcToken, TokenPrimaryGroup,
sidbuf, SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE,
);


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Re: binutils >= 2.41 makes .rsrc section read-only

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 21 09:27, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb 20 21:39, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Feb 2024, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Feb 19 21:41, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > 1) is there actually a good reason that _cygheap_start is in the .rsrc 
> > > > and
> > > > not the .cygheap section?
> > >
> > > As you know we got rid of this way to define the cygheap, but
> > > _cygheap_start was just defined this way so it's the address marking
> > > the start address of the cygheap.
> > >
> > > It was just the way it was.  It's probably just as well to move
> > >
> > >   _SYM (_cygheap_start) = .;
> > >
> > > to the begining of the .cygheap section.  Did you try?
> > 
> > I hadn't; I have now and it seems to work fine.
> 
> I'm glad to read that.
> 
> > I basically assumed there
> > was some reason I wasn't aware of for putting it in the .rsrc section, so
> > focused more on trying to figure out how to get binutils to clear the
> > readonly section flag.  When I couldn't figure that out, I figured I'd ask
> > here both about the "institutional knowledge" if there was a known reason
> > why it needed to be in the .rsrc section and because I figured some people
> > knowledgable in binutils pe stuff might also read this and be able to give
> > me another idea on making the .rsrc section read/write again if it did
> > need to stay in that section.
> 
> I think there was some historical reason to put in .rsrc, or rather,
> into the section preceeding .cygheap, but I don't remember what it was.
> Might have had something to do with stripping the cygwin DLL or some
> such...

Actually, searching the history shows commit ce95c6407ef6a from
2005-06-01, which moves the definition of __cygheap_start from
the .cygheap section to the .idata section.  However, the commit
message only contains the hint "cygwin.sc: Modernize. [...]"
There's no other reason given ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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Re: binutils >= 2.41 makes .rsrc section read-only

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 20 21:39, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 19 21:41, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> > > 1) is there actually a good reason that _cygheap_start is in the .rsrc and
> > > not the .cygheap section?
> >
> > As you know we got rid of this way to define the cygheap, but
> > _cygheap_start was just defined this way so it's the address marking
> > the start address of the cygheap.
> >
> > It was just the way it was.  It's probably just as well to move
> >
> >   _SYM (_cygheap_start) = .;
> >
> > to the begining of the .cygheap section.  Did you try?
> 
> I hadn't; I have now and it seems to work fine.

I'm glad to read that.

> I basically assumed there
> was some reason I wasn't aware of for putting it in the .rsrc section, so
> focused more on trying to figure out how to get binutils to clear the
> readonly section flag.  When I couldn't figure that out, I figured I'd ask
> here both about the "institutional knowledge" if there was a known reason
> why it needed to be in the .rsrc section and because I figured some people
> knowledgable in binutils pe stuff might also read this and be able to give
> me another idea on making the .rsrc section read/write again if it did
> need to stay in that section.

I think there was some historical reason to put in .rsrc, or rather,
into the section preceeding .cygheap, but I don't remember what it was.
Might have had something to do with stripping the cygwin DLL or some
such...


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Re: Cygwin installer hangs when running post-install scripts

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 20 10:33, Kevin Ushey via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> I just updated 
> https://gist.github.com/kevinushey/cdbd15cdf22e5cdcd094b0ad80347dce
> with that output (windbg-output-2.txt); let me know if that gives you
> what you need.

Thank you!  Not sure I'll follow up on this, ARM64 assembler still
puzzles me.  However, this way I can at least take a look.


Thanks again,
Corinna

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Re: BUG: Cygwin getent group refuses to list group added with net localgroup mygrp1 /add

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 20 17:24, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 at 10:57, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 20 05:13, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I think I found a rather nasty bug:
> > > 1. Add a new group with "net localgroup mygrp1 /add"
> > > 2. Then list all groups with "getent group", the new group mygrp1 will
> > > not show up. "getent group mygrp1" will list it, but this is useless
> > > in my case, as I need the group listed by "getent group"
> >
> > I guess we can rule out a domain controller but is this a standalone
> > machine or a domain member machine?
> 
> Standalone test machine, stock Windows 10 installed 2 days ago,
> current patches, Cygwin 3.5 from 2 days ago.
> 
> >
> > What's the setting of your /etc/nsswitch.conf?
> 
> Only comments in that file, i.e. empty

Please set the db_enum: line to

  db_enum: all

and try again after exiting from the shell window.  Have a look at
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch
for the settings.  By default account enumeration only returns
the bare minimum for speed.

Btw, there *is* a bug in that code, but it affects only domain
menber machines, afaics.


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Re: BUG: gettimeofday() didn't handle first argument being NULL

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 20 19:15, 109224573 via Cygwin wrote:
> this code works on Linux, but not msys2:
> 
> #include
> #include
> int main() {
>  struct timezone tz;
>  puts("a");
>  gettimeofday(NULL, tz);
>  puts("b");
> }
> 
> 
> I guess the reason would be
> winsup/cygwin/times.cc

Thanks for the bug report.  Fixed in git.  The test release
cygwin-3.6.0-0.46.g70653fd8f1db containing this patch will be
available shortly.


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Re: binutils >= 2.41 makes .rsrc section read-only

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 19 21:41, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> This is probably the right thing to do, but breaks building msys2-runtime
> (read: cygwin) 3.3, because the _cygheap_start symbol is actually in the
> .rsrc section and code very early attempts to memset _cygheap_start.
> Couple of questions:
> 
> 1) is there actually a good reason that _cygheap_start is in the .rsrc and
> not the .cygheap section?

As you know we got rid of this way to define the cygheap, but
_cygheap_start was just defined this way so it's the address marking
the start address of the cygheap.

It was just the way it was.  It's probably just as well to move

  _SYM (_cygheap_start) = .;

to the begining of the .cygheap section.  Did you try?


Corinna

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Re: BUG: Cygwin getent group refuses to list group added with net localgroup mygrp1 /add

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 20 05:13, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I think I found a rather nasty bug:
> 1. Add a new group with "net localgroup mygrp1 /add"
> 2. Then list all groups with "getent group", the new group mygrp1 will
> not show up. "getent group mygrp1" will list it, but this is useless
> in my case, as I need the group listed by "getent group"

I guess we can rule out a domain controller but is this a standalone
machine or a domain member machine?

What's the setting of your /etc/nsswitch.conf?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: Cygwin installer hangs when running post-install scripts

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi Kevin,

On Feb 15 20:13, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb 15 09:46, Kevin Ushey via Cygwin wrote:
> > https://gist.github.com/kevinushey/cdbd15cdf22e5cdcd094b0ad80347dce.
> [...]
>   0001`802b7054 db030094 bl  ntdll!#RtlpReferenceCurrentDirectory 
> (1802b7fc0)

I'm not familiar with ARM assembler, but a quick search showed that the
`bl' opcode is basically a subroutine call.

So ntdll!#RtlpReferenceCurrentDirectory is not the address of the struct
pointer, as I surmised, but the address of the function (probably)
fetching the address of the struct pointer.

Would you mind to send the assembler output for this function as well?


Thanks,
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Re: Group name madness: "CurrentSession" vs. "LogonSessionId_0_111590" vs. "NT AUTHORITY\LogonSessionId_0_111590" ...

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 19 08:11, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> 
> While implementing chown/chgrp support in the ms-nfs41-client (Windows
> NFSv4.1 client filesystem driver) I encountered an issue with group
> names.
> 
> I tried a simple $ chgrp CurrentSession myfile #, which returned
> "Permission denied".

Works for me:

  $ chgrp CurrentSession x.c
  $ ls -l x.c
  -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna CurrentSession 906 Jan 23 21:40 x.c
  $ icacls x.c
  x.c VINSCHEN\corinna:(R,W,D,WDAC,WO)
  NT AUTHORITY\LogonSessionId_0_2027255:(R)
  Everyone:(R)

  Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files
  $

> OK, /usr/bin/id -a shows that the current user is a member of this
> group, so I added a new group called "CurrentSession" to the NFSv4.1
> server side ([1]).

Just don't do that.  This group is a *temporary* group which is created
from your login session ID.  Your login session is basically a pair of
two 32 bit values, generated via NtAllocateLocallyUniqueId().  From
there, Windows creates a SID

 S-1-5-5--

These days, when you call LookupAccountSidW() on this SID, you get the
info

  Domain: NT AUTHORITY
  Namme:  LogonSessionId_0_2027255

This SID is used inside your user token to connect your token with the
login session for which this token has been created.  It can be used for
authorization purposes, but it's not meant to be used as a SID in file
ownership, even though it's possible (basically any SID can be added
to files).

So, what's that about "CurrentSession" in Cygwin?

The reason is that this is historically what Interix did.  Keep in
mind that Interix (as well as Cygwin, but that doesn't matter here)
exist since Windows NT 3.5 times.

The above naming mechanism didn't exist at the time.  If you fetched the
Logon SID from the token and called LookupAccountSidW() on it, the call
failed, i. e., there was no name attached to the SID.

So... given that a Logon SID is unique to the logon session, given that
the SID has no unambiguous name attached, and given that the Logon SID
makes *no sense at all* outside its session, the Interix guys decided to
solve this little problem like this:

- If the inspected token contains the Logon SID equivalent to the
  current user session, call it "CurrentSession" with unique gid 4095.

- If the inspected token contains a Logon SID which is not attached
  to the current Logon Session we're running in, call it "OtherSession"
  with the non-unique gid 4094.

This is the model Cygwin follows as well.  The Logon SIDs shouldn't
really concern you in terms of file access.  From the user perspective
they are barely informative at all.  They *could* make sense in terms
of temporary files, but I don't know of any useful example.

> But that did not work either, /usr/bin/chgrp # still failed.

I can't tell you why it didn't work for you while it works out of the
box for me.  However, there isn't much sense in there to attach these
SIDs to a file.  Logout, login again, and you will have a new Logon SID
anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Corinna

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Re: Cygwin sqlite locking debug options still available?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 17 14:38, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 12:31 PM Martin Wege  wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Is the debug mode for sqlite locking mode as described in
> > https://cygwin.cygwin.narkive.com/nkjMGQga/test-sqlite3-3-7-17-1-1-7-19-locking-feature
> > soehow still available?
> >
> > We sometimes get sqlite locking errors, and like to investigate what
> > and why this fails
> 
> Corinna?

Sorry, I'm not the sqlite maintainer.

Also, I skimmed the above mail thread and I don't see any mention of a
specific debug mode in the above mail thread.


Corinna

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Re: Cygwin installer hangs when running post-install scripts

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 15 09:46, Kevin Ushey via Cygwin wrote:
> Thanks -- I've put the associated WinDbg output up at
> https://gist.github.com/kevinushey/cdbd15cdf22e5cdcd094b0ad80347dce.
> (Sharing it externally just because it's relatively large.)

Thank you!

> The important thing to note is that #RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U appears
> to be valid ARM assembly, but not x86_64 assembly. My hypothesis here
> is that the stub is used to allow emulated x86_64 processes to call
> back into native ARM code... which would further confirm that
> disabling the find_fast_cwd_pointer checks for ARM is the correct
> choice.

I guess so, but I'm quite puzzled how the emulator is supposed
to know that it just left the x86_64 assembler code.  Magic!!!

Checking the ARM code, it might even be possible to come up with
a real solution, given this line in the first few bytes of
ntdll!#RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U:

  0001`802b7054 db030094 bl  ntdll!#RtlpReferenceCurrentDirectory 
(1802b7fc0)

This seems to fetch the address of the pointer we're interested in.
It's unlikely (but not impossible) that the structure differs from the
same struct as on x86_64.

We may have a chance there, but I would feel better if I could debug my
code by myself.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: Cygwin installer hangs when running post-install scripts

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 14 13:49, Kevin Ushey via Cygwin wrote:
> Thanks for your patience. Here's what I've got for the assembly around
> get_dir. I added a bit of debug logging just so I could get the
> function addresses:

First of all, thanks for taking the time to debug this further!

> C:\cygwin\bin>cygpath
> get_dir = 0x7FFB85E251B0
> rcall = 0x7FFB85E251CB
> 
> And here's what WinDbg reports:
> 
> ntdll!EXP+#RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U:
> 7ffb`85e251b0 488bc4 mov rax, rsp
> 7ffb`85e251b3 48895820   mov qword ptr [rax+20h], rbx
> 7ffb`85e251b7 55 pushrbp
> 7ffb`85e251b8 5d pop rbp
> 7ffb`85e251b9 e9721e2b00 jmp ntdll!#RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U
> (7ffb860d7030)
> 7ffb`85e251be cc int 3
> 7ffb`85e251bf cc int 3
> ntdll!EXP+#RtlGetCurrentPeb:
> 7ffb`85e251c0 488bc4 mov rax, rsp
> 7ffb`85e251c3 48895820   mov qword ptr [rax+20h], rbx
> 7ffb`85e251c7 55 pushrbp
> 7ffb`85e251c8 5d pop rbp
> 7ffb`85e251c9 e9e2e82400 jmp ntdll!#RtlGetCurrentPeb (7ffb86073ab0)
> 7ffb`85e251ce cc int 3
> 7ffb`85e251cf cc int 3
> 
> I'm not sure what the "EXP+#" prefix here means, but it appears to
> just be a stub that calls into the real implementation now?

Yes, that seems to be the case, same EXP+#for RtlGetCurrentPeb.

> So, if I'm understanding correctly:
> 
> 1. Cygwin was expecting to find a 'call' instruction somewhere
> following (the procedure address for) RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U;
> 2. The expected 'call' instruction no longer exists; however, by
> chance, there is a 'jmp' later on that includes '0xe8' in the bytes of
> the address to be jumped to;

That's it.  Chances are high that the above ntdll code was always more
or less the same and find_fast_cwd_pointer() failed all the time.  Only,
it never found the "e8" and so nothing bad happened.

So, as long as we don't know how to fix this correctly, my patch
4e77fa9b8bf4 ("Cygwin: find_fast_cwd: don't run assembler checking code
on ARM64") seems the right thing to do.

What annoys me is that I don't have access to ARM64 myself.  I tried
to install Windows for ARM64 on a QEmu emulator, but the VM always
failed to boot into Windows, it just sat there and used up CPU.
I even contemplated installing an Azure ARM64 VM, but I always shy
away from cloud services at the point they ask you for your size of
shoe and your social security number.

Anyway...

> For reference, here's what I see on my Intel Windows 11 machine, where
> all works as normal (showing up to the "call" instruction)

I wonder if you would be willing to grant us a view into the
ntdll!#RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U function jumped to from
ntdll!EXP+#RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U.  Per your above assembler output,
that would be at 7ffb860d7030.  Would you mind to post the WinDBG
assembler output of that function as well, even if just for curiosity?


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: Cygwin installer hangs when running post-install scripts

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 14 10:52, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb 13 15:48, Kevin Ushey via Cygwin wrote:
> > Here's a bit more information from a debug build of cygwin; here I'm
> > just trying to launch cygpath.exe:
> > 
> > (gdb) f 1
> > #1  0x7ffa0123ba1f in find_fast_cwd_pointer () at
> > ../../../../winsup/cygwin/path.cc:4526
> > 4526  const uint8_t *lock = (const uint8_t *)
> > 
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  memmem (haystack=, hs_len=,
> > needle=0x7ffa0142e531 <_C_collate_locale+59857>, ne_len=4) at
> > ../../../newlib/libc/string/memmem.c:161
> > #1  0x7ffa0123ba1f in find_fast_cwd_pointer () at
> > ../../../../winsup/cygwin/path.cc:4526
> > [...]
> 
> Ok, so we know now which memmem call fails, so the next question is,
> why?  The haystack address is unfortunately still optimized out in
> memmem, so it looks like the newlib subdir is still optimized.
> But it's pretty certainly a wrong haystack address.  This address has
> been fetched from
> 
>   const uint8_t *rcall = (const uint8_t *) memchr (get_dir, 0xe8, 80);
>   ...
>   const uint8_t *use_cwd = rcall + 5 + peek32 (rcall + 1);
> 
> Chances are high, that the call instruction found by rcall is bogus.

Can you run this in GDB?  I'd love to see the assembler code starting at
address `get_dir'...


Corinna

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Re: Cygwin installer hangs when running post-install scripts

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 13 15:48, Kevin Ushey via Cygwin wrote:
> Here's a bit more information from a debug build of cygwin; here I'm
> just trying to launch cygpath.exe:
> 
> (gdb) f 1
> #1  0x7ffa0123ba1f in find_fast_cwd_pointer () at
> ../../../../winsup/cygwin/path.cc:4526
> 4526  const uint8_t *lock = (const uint8_t *)
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  memmem (haystack=, hs_len=,
> needle=0x7ffa0142e531 <_C_collate_locale+59857>, ne_len=4) at
> ../../../newlib/libc/string/memmem.c:161
> #1  0x7ffa0123ba1f in find_fast_cwd_pointer () at
> ../../../../winsup/cygwin/path.cc:4526
> [...]

Ok, so we know now which memmem call fails, so the next question is,
why?  The haystack address is unfortunately still optimized out in
memmem, so it looks like the newlib subdir is still optimized.
But it's pretty certainly a wrong haystack address.  This address has
been fetched from

  const uint8_t *rcall = (const uint8_t *) memchr (get_dir, 0xe8, 80);
  ...
  const uint8_t *use_cwd = rcall + 5 + peek32 (rcall + 1);

Chances are high, that the call instruction found by rcall is bogus.

> Diving in further is a bit beyond my level of experience with Windows
> internals.

It would be great if you could run this under GDB and check the
assembler code inside the ntdll.dll this code is scanning.  You
don't really need knowledge of Windows internals, it's basically
just really dumb scanning of assembler code for certain instructions,
and the expected assembler code is x86_64.

> I wonder if it'd be
> worth having cygwin respect an environment variable like
> CYGWIN_USE_FAST_CWD_POINTER, so that users could opt out of this
> particular optimization if it happens to break on new versions of
> Windows, as I have seemingly encountered.

My latest patch already does it, no env var required.

> As an aside, I had to make a couple of small patches to side-step gcc
> warnings (converted to errors) during build; I tried building with "-g
> -Og" flags.

I'm usually building with -ggdb only, or with -ggdb -O2.

I just added -Og, and checked the below code.  I'm not so sure about the
usefulness of -Og, given that all three warnings are false positives...

> $ git diff
> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/fifo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/fifo.cc
> index efea508ae..f288e874a 100644
> --- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/fifo.cc
> +++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/fifo.cc
> @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ fhandler_fifo::create_shmem (bool only_open)
>  {
>HANDLE sect;
>OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES attr;
> -  NTSTATUS status;
> +  NTSTATUS status = 0;
>LARGE_INTEGER size = { .QuadPart = sizeof (fifo_shmem_t) };
>SIZE_T viewsize = sizeof (fifo_shmem_t);
>PVOID addr = NULL;

My gcc (11.3.0) did not show this, even with -Og.  However, the status
var always gets set, see lines 685 - 695.

> diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/tty.cc b/winsup/cygwin/tty.cc
> index bf7c6010f..2cd4ae6ed 100644
> --- a/winsup/cygwin/tty.cc
> +++ b/winsup/cygwin/tty.cc
> @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ tty::wait_fwd ()
>   thread when the last data is transfered. */
>const ULONGLONG sleep_in_nat_pipe = 16;
>const ULONGLONG time_to_wait = sleep_in_nat_pipe * 2 + 1/* margine */;
> -  ULONGLONG elapsed;
> +  ULONGLONG elapsed = 0;
>while (fwd_not_empty
>  || (elapsed = GetTickCount64 () - fwd_last_time) < time_to_wait)
>  {

fwd_not_empty is false for a start, so GetTickCount64() is called at
least once.

> diff --git a/winsup/utils/kill.cc b/winsup/utils/kill.cc
> index fb45e4c9d..bcabcd47c 100644
> --- a/winsup/utils/kill.cc
> +++ b/winsup/utils/kill.cc
> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ print_version ()
>  static const char *
>  strsigno (int signo)
>  {
> -  static char sigbuf[8];
> +  static char sigbuf[32];
> 
>if (signo > 0 && signo < SIGRTMIN)
>  return sys_sigabbrev[signo];

We're calling snprintf here for a reason, and we know that the
number has never more than 2 digits.  Oh well.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Re: Cygwin installer hangs when running post-install scripts

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 13 10:01, Kevin Ushey via Cygwin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 8:25 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb 13 11:09, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Other than that, the only thing you really could do at this point is to
> > > check Cygwin's find_fast_cwd_pointer() function and go through this
> > > function step by step, diving into the assembler code this function
> > > inspects trying to find out which of the memmem calls fails and how to
> > > fix it.  And send a patch eventually.
> > > [...]
> > > One thing we can do is to skip the find_fast_cwd_pointer() code entirely
> > > when running on AArch64, but it's a bit annoying, given this wasn't
> > > necessary in previous AArch64 builds.
> >
> > I've just pushed a (temporary?) patch to do just that.  This will be
> > in the test build cygwin-3.6.0-0.37.g4e77fa9b8bf4 which will be
> > installable via Cygwin's installer in an hour or two.
> 
> Thank you for taking a look so quickly -- I can confirm your patch
> fixes things for me; the installer now runs to completion and the
> Cygwin64 Terminal + other installed tools all function correctly.

Thanks for confirming.  However, if you see *any* chance to check
Cygwin's find_fast_cwd_pointer() pointer function and try to find
out why it crashes, that would be very helpful.


Corinna

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Re: Cygwin installer hangs when running post-install scripts

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 13 11:09, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb 12 14:38, Kevin Ushey via Cygwin wrote:
> > For reference, I first bumped into this when using Git Bash as bundled
> > with Git for Windows, but it sounds like the underlying issue may be
> > in Cygwin. See https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4808 for
> > more details.
> 
> There is, however, the stacktrace from your above issue report on
> github, which makes more sense, and, incidentally, occurs in code
> following cygwin_split_path in the .text segment:
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0002101eeaf3 in memmem () from [...]
> #1  0x000210095d91 in cwdstuff::override_win32_cwd(bool, unsigned int) ()
>from [...]
> #2  0x00021009642e in cwdstuff::set(path_conv*, char const*) () from [...]
> #3  0x000210047025 in dll_crt0_1(void*) () from [...]
> #4  [...]
> 
> This points to something going wrong during startup, while trying
> to evaluate the global pointer to the hidden ntdll.dll struct we
> called, for want of an official expression, FAST_CWD structure.
> 
> If we can rely on frame 1, a call to memmem crashes, that would
> mean the crash occurs in find_fast_cwd_pointer().
> 
> > Does any of this sound familiar? Is there anything else I can do to
> > get more information here; e.g. are there builds of Cygwin with debug
> > symbols published somewhere, or should I try producing my own debug
> > build?
> 
> Well, you could have mentioned that this is on AArch64.  Fortunately
> you did in the github case, but next time, please tell us here, too.
> 
> I assume you can't run any Cygwin binary, even from outside the
> installer?
> 
> Other than that, the only thing you really could do at this point is to
> check Cygwin's find_fast_cwd_pointer() function and go through this
> function step by step, diving into the assembler code this function
> inspects trying to find out which of the memmem calls fails and how to
> fix it.  And send a patch eventually.
> 
> However, there isn't much point there as long as this is an insider
> build.  In the past, the code often changed and was uncritical in the
> next official release.
> 
> One thing we can do is to skip the find_fast_cwd_pointer() code entirely
> when running on AArch64, but it's a bit annoying, given this wasn't
> necessary in previous AArch64 builds.

I've just pushed a (temporary?) patch to do just that.  This will be
in the test build cygwin-3.6.0-0.37.g4e77fa9b8bf4 which will be
installable via Cygwin's installer in an hour or two.

Please try if this works for you and report back.  You can use this
DLL as workaround for the time being then.


Corinna

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Re: Win32 account SID lookup if user and group have the same name?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 13 02:12, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> How can I get the SID for either user XOR group if both have the same
> name? Remember Cygwin, as Unix and Linux, allow that a user "danfsh"
> can have his own group "danfsh". That works fine there, but on Win32
> there is only LookupAccountSidA() which has no way to distinguish
> whether you want a user SID or a group SID.

User and group "danfsh" are NOT a user and a group.  Rather, there is
actually only one user account "danfsh" and Windows fills in your user
token with the *same* SID as primary group.

The weird thing in Windows is that it has no strict concept of groups.
The user token contains primary and supplementary group info, but the OS
can fill them with basically any SID it can lay its hands on.

And at one point (I'm deliberately vague here since I don't know exactly
when this occured), Microsoft started to fill in the primary group of
some local account with the user SID, rather than with the "None"(*)
group as is usually the default for local accounts.

(*) That's the local domain SID with RID 513. The name of the group
is actually localized.

> How can I get the SID for group "danfsh", or the SID for user "danfsh"?

It's the same SID and it's your user SID.  There can't be a group with
the same name as a user account in the same user DB.  Each account in
the local domain or in an AD domain has to have a unique account name.


HTH,
Corinna

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Re: Cygwin installer hangs when running post-install scripts

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 12 14:38, Kevin Ushey via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm seeing an issue when attempting to install Cygwin where the
> installer hangs while trying to run postinstall scripts (more
> specifically, /etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash). When the hang
> occurs, I see a 'dash.exe' process chewing up 100% of a CPU. If I
> attach to the process with WinDbg, I see:
> 
> (940.978): Access violation - code c005 (first chance)
> First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.
> This exception may be expected and handled.
> cygwin1!memmem+0xcb:
> 7ffa`490cbb1b 410fb60424  movzx   eax,byte ptr [r12]
> ds:7ffa`552651f7=??
> 0:000> k
>  #   Arch   Child-SP  RetAddr   Call Site
> 00AMD64 0007`c930 7ffa`48f8028f cygwin1!memmem+0xcb
> 01AMD64 0007`ca90 7ffa`48f80a49
> cygwin1!cygwin_split_path+0x3a0
> 02AMD64 0007`cb20 7ffa`48f37071
> cygwin1!cygwin_split_path+0xb5a
> 03AMD64 0007`cc50 7ffa`48f35e08
> cygwin1!cygwin_dll_init+0x26b
> 04AMD64 0007`cd80 7ffa`48f35e86 cygwin1!_assert+0x23f0
> 05AMD64 0007`cdd0 ` cygwin1!_assert+0x246e
> 
> I'm not sure how much I can trust the stack trace here, though.

I don't think this stacktrace makes any sense. cygwin_split_path
is a function only exported for historical reasons and not used
internally.  Dash doesn't call it either.

> For reference, I first bumped into this when using Git Bash as bundled
> with Git for Windows, but it sounds like the underlying issue may be
> in Cygwin. See https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4808 for
> more details.

There is, however, the stacktrace from your above issue report on
github, which makes more sense, and, incidentally, occurs in code
following cygwin_split_path in the .text segment:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x0002101eeaf3 in memmem () from [...]
#1  0x000210095d91 in cwdstuff::override_win32_cwd(bool, unsigned int) ()
   from [...]
#2  0x00021009642e in cwdstuff::set(path_conv*, char const*) () from [...]
#3  0x000210047025 in dll_crt0_1(void*) () from [...]
#4  [...]

This points to something going wrong during startup, while trying
to evaluate the global pointer to the hidden ntdll.dll struct we
called, for want of an official expression, FAST_CWD structure.

If we can rely on frame 1, a call to memmem crashes, that would
mean the crash occurs in find_fast_cwd_pointer().

> Does any of this sound familiar? Is there anything else I can do to
> get more information here; e.g. are there builds of Cygwin with debug
> symbols published somewhere, or should I try producing my own debug
> build?

Well, you could have mentioned that this is on AArch64.  Fortunately
you did in the github case, but next time, please tell us here, too.

I assume you can't run any Cygwin binary, even from outside the
installer?

Other than that, the only thing you really could do at this point is to
check Cygwin's find_fast_cwd_pointer() function and go through this
function step by step, diving into the assembler code this function
inspects trying to find out which of the memmem calls fails and how to
fix it.  And send a patch eventually.

However, there isn't much point there as long as this is an insider
build.  In the past, the code often changed and was uncritical in the
next official release.

One thing we can do is to skip the find_fast_cwd_pointer() code entirely
when running on AArch64, but it's a bit annoying, given this wasn't
necessary in previous AArch64 builds.


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Re: Cygwin build from source is broken since binutils-2.42-1

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb 12 11:10, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> This is not a binutils regression: A build from cygwin 3.5.0-1 src package
> or current newlib-cygwin git main (bfb68a9) with new binutils-2.42-1 fails
> with:
> 
> "
> In file included from ../../../../winsup/utils/dumper.cc:23:
> /usr/include/bfd.h:2748:1: error: expected initializer before
> ‘ATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT’
> "
> 
> Downgrading to binutils 2.41-3 fixes the problem.
> 
> A diff of /usr/include/bsd.h shows that ATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT is a
> new addition in 2.42-1. This requires /usr/include/ansidecl.h. It is
> included by /usr/include/bsd.h but this has no effect because Cygwin source
> tree provides its own ansidecl.h which lacks ATTRIBUTE_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT:
> 
> $ g++ MANY_OPTIONS... -E ../../../../winsup/utils/dumper.cc
> ...
> # 1 "../../../../winsup/utils/dumper.cc"
> ...
> # 1 "../../../../winsup/../include/ansidecl.h" 1  <== #define _ANSIDECL_H
> ...
> # 1 "/usr/include/bfd.h" 1 3 4
> ...
> # 1 "/usr/include/ansidecl.h" 1 3 4  <== #ifndef _ANSIDECL_H

Did you try to copy over include/ansidecl.h from binutils master
to newlib-cygwin's include/ansidecl.h?

It looks like this does the trick, together with changing
dumper.cc, because of:

winsup/utils/dumper.cc:145:48: error: ‘PTR’ has not been declared
  145 | print_section_name (bfd* abfd, asection* sect, PTR obj)
  |^~~

Changing this to "void*" fixes the build for binutils 2.40 on Linux.


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Re: Updated: setup (2.930)

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  9 17:20, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb  9 13:36, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> > On 09/02/2024 02:17, Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin wrote:
> > > 
> > > I see the commit: 
> > > https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/setup/commit/?id=0122154811bacdd7dc042cff0c80bb0a36af360c
> > > 
> > > I'm curious, what improvement arises out of looking up the 
> > > SetDefaultDllDirectories
> > > function dynamically in kernel32.dll?
> > > 
> > > Is it the case that malicious software can interpose itself somehow such 
> > > that
> > > the statically linked SetDefaultDllDirectories call goes elsewhere other 
> > > than
> > > kernel32.dll, which we can thwart by asking for the genuine article in 
> > > kernel32.dll?
> > 
> > You're looking at the wrong commit there.
> > 
> > The dynamic lookup merely ensures that setup continues to work at all on
> > Windows versions (<6.0), which don't support that function.
> 
> Typo.  Windows < 6.2.  SetDefaultDllDirectories has been introduced with
> Windows 8.

...and with KB2533623 it was also backported to Vista, W7, and the
equivalent server versions, so just ignore me.

Corinna

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Re: Updated: setup (2.930)

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  9 13:36, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> On 09/02/2024 02:17, Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin wrote:
> > 
> > I see the commit: 
> > https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-apps/setup/commit/?id=0122154811bacdd7dc042cff0c80bb0a36af360c
> > 
> > I'm curious, what improvement arises out of looking up the 
> > SetDefaultDllDirectories
> > function dynamically in kernel32.dll?
> > 
> > Is it the case that malicious software can interpose itself somehow such 
> > that
> > the statically linked SetDefaultDllDirectories call goes elsewhere other 
> > than
> > kernel32.dll, which we can thwart by asking for the genuine article in 
> > kernel32.dll?
> 
> You're looking at the wrong commit there.
> 
> The dynamic lookup merely ensures that setup continues to work at all on
> Windows versions (<6.0), which don't support that function.

Typo.  Windows < 6.2.  SetDefaultDllDirectories has been introduced with
Windows 8.


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Re: [PATCH] In gcc 13, -Wall turns on -Woverloaded-virtual

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps]

On Feb  8 16:07, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 07/02/2024 10:46, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > Also fix ambiguous method declaration by dropping a default parameter.
> > ---
> > Hi Jon,
> > 
> > I'm not sure removing virtual from all Create methods really fits the
> > bill in all cases, are you?
> > 
> > I had a go at fixing this while keeping the virtuality of the methods
> > intact.  While at it it also occured to me that there's a tricky problem
> > for the compiler to differentiate the method
> 
> This seems like overkill.
> 
> From auditing the code, as far as I can tell, we only ever instantiate
> PropPage-derived objects for each of the setup wizard pages, and one
> PropSheet object to contain them.
> 
> There are no instantiations of the Window class itself.
> 
> PropPage::Create() doesn't even call Window::Create(), so that method can
> actually be totally removed without problem...

I just thought it might be a good idea to keep virtuality, but your
assessment shows that was unnecessary.  No worries from my side.

Corinna

Re: cygsshd fails due to bad ownership or modes of /cygdrive/c/Users

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  7 20:27, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb  7 20:23, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> > Frank-Ulrich Sommer via Cygwin writes:
> > > I'm trying to run cygsshd on my PC with Windows 11 and connect from a
> > > linux machine. I have added the public key to
> > > /cygdrive/c/Users/xxx/.ssh/authorized_keys and created a symbolic link
> > > from  /cygdrive/c/Users/xxx/.ssh to /home/xxx/.ssh. As usual I checked
> > > the access rights and mode of the .ssh directory (700 and belongs to
> > > user xxx) and the authorized_keys file (600 and also belongs to user
> > > xxx) and also of the home directory (had to change ownership).
> > 
> > Just bind mount instead of symlinking .ssh and everything should work.
> 
> Assuming you have installed CYgwin under your own account, that's even
> better than utilizing "StrictModes"

Scratch the "Assuming you have installed Cygwin under your own account"
thingy.  The safe_path() function in OpenSSH checks the path of files
in your home dir only up to the home directory itself.  However, that
depends on

  $ getent passwd 

returning the correct home dir.

Personally I just use Cygwin's /home/corinna as home path and symlink
or bind mount the Windows stuff into it, e.g.

  $ ln -s /proc/cygdrive/c/Users/corinna ~/winhome


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Re: cygsshd fails due to bad ownership or modes of /cygdrive/c/Users

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  7 20:23, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> Frank-Ulrich Sommer via Cygwin writes:
> > I'm trying to run cygsshd on my PC with Windows 11 and connect from a
> > linux machine. I have added the public key to
> > /cygdrive/c/Users/xxx/.ssh/authorized_keys and created a symbolic link
> > from  /cygdrive/c/Users/xxx/.ssh to /home/xxx/.ssh. As usual I checked
> > the access rights and mode of the .ssh directory (700 and belongs to
> > user xxx) and the authorized_keys file (600 and also belongs to user
> > xxx) and also of the home directory (had to change ownership).
> 
> Just bind mount instead of symlinking .ssh and everything should work.

Assuming you have installed CYgwin under your own account, that's even
better than utilizing "StrictModes"


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Re: cygsshd fails due to bad ownership or modes of /cygdrive/c/Users

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  7 19:01, matthew patton via Cygwin wrote:
> > The problem seems to be that OpenSSH does not even arrive at checking the 
> >home diretory> or the .ssh directory. It starts checking every directory in 
> >the path and fails already at "/cygdrive/c/Users"
> I don't think we can win an argument with Theo over how misguided and 
> unnecessary meddling the OpenSSH code is being. Ownership that diverges from 
> 0 (or 2, or 18) should be a mere WARNING, not an ERROR until validity checks 
> get to the user's actual $HOME and/or  the authorized_keys directory+file. 
> /home in cygwin is just [OS drive]/cygwin64/home so that doesn't fix 
> anything. I personally set the Cygwin FSTAB to
> C:/Users /home  none    binary  0 0
> Unfortunately I think we need an #IFDEF on safe_path() to force it back into 
> it's lane.Anyone want to tangle with Theo?

You can switch off the extended path permission checks by
changing your /etc/sshd_config file.

See the "StrictModes" setting in `man sshd_config'


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[PATCH] In gcc 13, -Wall turns on -Woverloaded-virtual

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps]

Also fix ambiguous method declaration by dropping a default parameter.
---
Hi Jon,

I'm not sure removing virtual from all Create methods really fits the
bill in all cases, are you?

I had a go at fixing this while keeping the virtuality of the methods
intact.  While at it it also occured to me that there's a tricky problem
for the compiler to differentiate the method

  Create ();

from the method

  Create (Window * = NULL, DWORD = 42);

I fixed this ambiguity by making the Window parameter a non-default
parameter.

What do you think?


Corinna

 desktop.h| 2 +-
 main.cc  | 2 +-
 proppage.h   | 1 +
 propsheet.cc | 2 +-
 propsheet.h  | 2 +-
 window.h | 7 ++-
 6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/desktop.h b/desktop.h
index d4ce72def757..87b5ccee5302 100644
--- a/desktop.h
+++ b/desktop.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ public:
   {
   };

-  bool Create ();
+  virtual bool Create ();

   virtual void OnInit ();
   virtual void OnActivate ();
diff --git a/main.cc b/main.cc
index b570c6cb18ec..9035260972b3 100644
--- a/main.cc
+++ b/main.cc
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ main_display ()
   MainWindow.AddPage ();

   // Create the PropSheet main window
-  MainWindow.Create ();
+  MainWindow.Create (NULL);

   // Uninitalize COM
   if (sl)
diff --git a/proppage.h b/proppage.h
index 64f822b515be..5301a97a8221 100644
--- a/proppage.h
+++ b/proppage.h
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ public:
 IsLast = false;
   };

+  virtual bool Create () { return false; };
   virtual bool Create (int TemplateID);
   virtual bool Create (DLGPROC dlgproc, int TemplateID);
   virtual bool Create (DLGPROC dlgproc,
diff --git a/propsheet.cc b/propsheet.cc
index faf6583f0803..3563a388cd48 100644
--- a/propsheet.cc
+++ b/propsheet.cc
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ PropSheetProc (HWND hwndDlg, UINT uMsg, LPARAM lParam)
 }

 bool
-PropSheet::Create (const Window * Parent, DWORD Style)
+PropSheet::Create (Window * Parent, DWORD Style)
 {
   PROPSHEETHEADERW p;

diff --git a/propsheet.h b/propsheet.h
index b900e790c32f..870905cf9777 100644
--- a/propsheet.h
+++ b/propsheet.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public:
   void SetHWNDFromPage (HWND h);
   void AdjustPageSize (HWND page);

-  virtual bool Create (const Window * Parent = NULL,
+  virtual bool Create (Window *Parent,
   DWORD Style =
   WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CLIPCHILDREN);

diff --git a/window.h b/window.h
index 1dfb2a9f7514..bd3080e758fc 100644
--- a/window.h
+++ b/window.h
@@ -82,7 +82,12 @@ public:
   Window ();
   virtual ~ Window ();

-  virtual bool Create (Window * Parent = NULL,
+  virtual bool Create () { return false; };
+  virtual bool Create (int) { return false; };
+  virtual bool Create (DLGPROC, int) { return false; };
+  virtual bool Create (DLGPROC, BOOL (*) (HWND, int, HWND, UINT), int)
+  { return false; };
+  virtual bool Create (Window *Parent,
   DWORD Style =
   WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CLIPCHILDREN);

--
2.43.0

Re: Restore SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS [was: Aren't Windows System Error popups meant to be disabled in Cygwin?]

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  3 13:39, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb  2 19:51, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Feb  2 18:22, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Feb  2 14:56, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 14:18, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > > Is it actually a safe bet that the error mode set by 
> > > > > SetThreadErrorMode
> > > > > is then propagated as process error mode to the child process?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have to ask that because Microsoft conveniently forgot to document
> > > > > this scenario in the MSDN docs.
> > > > 
> > > > :o) Never knowingly clear, are they! It would seem to be the intent of
> > > > SetThreadErrorMode that it would behave that way but who knows.
> > > > 
> > > > Happy to set up a quick experiment to check that it does work (i.e.
> > > > [...]
> > > Wanna try this?
> > [...]
> > However, it occured to me that this won't work at all.
> > [...]
> 
> Sorry to say that, but SetThreadErrorMode/CreateProcess don't do what we
> want them to do.  I just tested this myself with a modified Cygwin DLL
> (code below) and it turns out that the child process error mode is
> the same as the parent's process error mode.  Changing the thread
> error mode from the Cygwin default 3 (aka SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS |
> SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX) to 0 doesn't have any effect.
> [...etc.]

MSYS2 has introduced the environment variable option CYGWIN=winjitdebug.
I backported this patch now.  So default is back to propagating Cygwin's
error mode and if you want to reset the error mode of a non-Cygwin child
process back to OS default, just set the option, for instance, like
this:

  $ CYGWIN=winjitdebug env 

This patch will be in Cygwin 3.5.1.  For the time being, it will be
available in the next test release cygwin-3.6.0-0.28.g918c3eda4176 as
well.


HTH,
Corinna

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Re: Restore SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS [was: Aren't Windows System Error popups meant to be disabled in Cygwin?]

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  2 19:51, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb  2 18:22, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Feb  2 14:56, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 14:18, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > Is it actually a safe bet that the error mode set by SetThreadErrorMode
> > > > is then propagated as process error mode to the child process?
> > > >
> > > > I have to ask that because Microsoft conveniently forgot to document
> > > > this scenario in the MSDN docs.
> > > 
> > > :o) Never knowingly clear, are they! It would seem to be the intent of
> > > SetThreadErrorMode that it would behave that way but who knows.
> > > 
> > > Happy to set up a quick experiment to check that it does work (i.e.
> > > [...]
> > Wanna try this?
> [...]
> However, it occured to me that this won't work at all.
> [...]

Sorry to say that, but SetThreadErrorMode/CreateProcess don't do what we
want them to do.  I just tested this myself with a modified Cygwin DLL
(code below) and it turns out that the child process error mode is
the same as the parent's process error mode.  Changing the thread
error mode from the Cygwin default 3 (aka SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS |
SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX) to 0 doesn't have any effect.

Check the below Cygwin patch and look at output ("gem" is my MingW test
app just printing the process error mode retrieved via GetErrorMode):

  $ ./gem
0 [main] dash 990 child_info_spawn::worker: 1 = SetThreadErrorMode (0, 
0) GT:0 GP:3
16158 [main] dash 990 child_info_spawn::worker: 1 = SetThreadErrorMode (3, 
0)
  Error mode 0x3
  $

The terrible thing here is the output of the old thread error mode
from GetThreadErrorMode as well as from SetThreadErrorMode.

MSDN says:

  Each process has an associated error mode that indicates to the system
  how the application is going to respond to serious errors. A thread
  inherits the error mode of the process in which it is running. To
  retrieve the process error mode, use the GetErrorMode function. To
  retrieve the error mode of the calling thread, use the
  GetThreadErrorMode function.

What that means is, even though the process error mode is 3 , and even
though "A thread inherits the error mode of the process in which it is
running", GetThreadErrorMode/SetThreadErrorMode return a thread error
code of 0!!!

So if GetThreadErrorMode returns 0, you *have* to call GetErrorMode to
retrieve the *actual* thread error mode, because the thread error mode
just says "yo man, it's default".

In extension this probably *also* means, setting the thread error mode
to 0 does NOT mean "set it to system default" as MSDN claims, but it
means "set it to process default".

But in fact, even if I set a non-0 thread error mode, this has no effect
on the child process.  I forced the thread error mode to 1 before calling
CreateProcess, and the resulting child process error mode was still the
Cygwin process error mode 3.

Isn't that completely screwed up?

Ok, my Cygwin DLL test patch follows below.


Corinna


diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc b/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
index a40129c22232..14ba4e3769f1 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
@@ -718,7 +718,8 @@ dll_crt0_0 ()
   init_windows_system_directory ();
   initial_env ();
 
-  SetErrorMode (SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX);
+  UINT proc_error_mode = SetErrorMode (SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS
+  | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX);
 
   lock_process::init ();
   user_data->impure_ptr = _impure_ptr;
@@ -738,6 +739,13 @@ dll_crt0_0 ()
   if (!child_proc_info)
 {
   setup_cygheap ();
+  /* Memorize the original error mode when this Cygwin process
+has been called from a non-Cygwin process.  We restore to
+this error mode on spawning a non-Cygwin process.  This allows
+to set a non-default error mode prior to calling the first
+Cygwin process and forward it to any subsequent non-Cygwin
+child process at spawn time. */
+  cygheap->orig_proc_error_mode = proc_error_mode;
   memory_init ();
 }
   else
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/local_includes/cygheap.h 
b/winsup/cygwin/local_includes/cygheap.h
index b6acdf7f18b7..02e3cb4621e3 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/local_includes/cygheap.h
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/local_includes/cygheap.h
@@ -517,6 +517,7 @@ struct init_cygheap: public mini_cygheap
   mode_t umask;
   LONG rlim_as_id;
   unsigned long rlim_core;
+  UINT orig_proc_error_mode; /* Set when started from non-Cygwin process */
   HANDLE console_h;
   cwdstuff cwd;
   dtable fdtab;
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
index 8a2db5cf72e2..85dbec431b28 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
@@ -401,13 +401,6 @@ child_info_spawn::w

Re: Restore SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS [was: Aren't Windows System Error popups meant to be disabled in Cygwin?]

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  2 18:22, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb  2 14:56, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 14:18, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > On Feb  2 13:35, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > Not really suggesting it be done this way (it feels more complicated
> > > > than just reverting the change), but in some ways perhaps Cygwin
> > > > should be using GetErrorMode on startup and instead of not inheriting
> > > > it, ensuring that it sets whatever it received? i.e. just before the
> > > > call to CreateProcess for a non-Cygwin binary, Cygwin restores the
> > > > error mode (for that thread only) to the value read at startup, calls
> > > > CreateProcess and then sets the error mode back.
> > >
> > > This sounds like a good ide, but...
> > >
> > > Is it actually a safe bet that the error mode set by SetThreadErrorMode
> > > is then propagated as process error mode to the child process?
> > >
> > > I have to ask that because Microsoft conveniently forgot to document
> > > this scenario in the MSDN docs.
> > 
> > :o) Never knowingly clear, are they! It would seem to be the intent of
> > SetThreadErrorMode that it would behave that way but who knows.
> > 
> > Happy to set up a quick experiment to check that it does work (i.e.
> > the invoked process has GetErrorMode set as expected) and that there's
> > no possible race between two threads in the calling process with
> > differing values (i.e. that having SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS in one
> > thread and not in another behaves as expected. If it does appear to
> > work consistently, would you be willing to go down this route? Happy
> > to do the patch, although it'd be very helpful to have a couple of
> > pointers: I'm guessing the value would want to be captured just before
> > the one place where SetErrorMode is already called, but in which
> > structure should it then be stashed away to be reused in spawn?
> 
> Wanna try this?  It ignores the case of starting a process
> under another user account for now, but that can be added easily
> if this proves to work as expected.

During dinner it occured to me that I forgot to remove setting the
default error mode via CreateProcess.  So this patch would have
to be applied as well:

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
index 8a2db5cf72e2..2e0f0fcf2146 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
@@ -401,13 +401,6 @@ child_info_spawn::worker (const char *prog_arg, const char 
*const *argv,
 
   c_flags |= CREATE_SEPARATE_WOW_VDM | CREATE_UNICODE_ENVIRONMENT;
 
-  /* Add CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE flag for non-Cygwin processes so they
-get the default error mode instead of inheriting the mode Cygwin
-uses.  This allows things like Windows Error Reporting/JIT debugging
-to work with processes launched from a Cygwin shell. */
-  if (!real_path.iscygexec ())
-   c_flags |= CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE;
-
   /* We're adding the CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB flag here to workaround
 issues with the "Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) Service".
 For some reason, when starting long running sessions from mintty(*),

However, it occured to me that this won't work at all.

Consider fork/exec.  In Windows terms, the forked process is a child
process started with CreateProcess.  The forked child is a Cygwin
process, so at DLL init time, it sets

  orig_proc_error_mode = SetErrorMode (SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS
   | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX);

However, given the parent is always a Cygwin parent, orig_proc_error_mode
will always be SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX.

The following exec starting a non-Cygwin process will set the thread
error mode to the above value.  So any non-Cygwin process started from
your typical Cygwin process like bash, will always have the error mode
set to the same mode as any Cygwin application.

Ultimately this means, the effect is the same as if we had just reverted
commit 21ec498d7f912 ("cygwin: use CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE in spawn").


Corinna

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Re: Restore SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS [was: Aren't Windows System Error popups meant to be disabled in Cygwin?]

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  2 14:56, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 14:18, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Feb  2 13:35, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> > > Not really suggesting it be done this way (it feels more complicated
> > > than just reverting the change), but in some ways perhaps Cygwin
> > > should be using GetErrorMode on startup and instead of not inheriting
> > > it, ensuring that it sets whatever it received? i.e. just before the
> > > call to CreateProcess for a non-Cygwin binary, Cygwin restores the
> > > error mode (for that thread only) to the value read at startup, calls
> > > CreateProcess and then sets the error mode back.
> >
> > This sounds like a good ide, but...
> >
> > Is it actually a safe bet that the error mode set by SetThreadErrorMode
> > is then propagated as process error mode to the child process?
> >
> > I have to ask that because Microsoft conveniently forgot to document
> > this scenario in the MSDN docs.
> 
> :o) Never knowingly clear, are they! It would seem to be the intent of
> SetThreadErrorMode that it would behave that way but who knows.
> 
> Happy to set up a quick experiment to check that it does work (i.e.
> the invoked process has GetErrorMode set as expected) and that there's
> no possible race between two threads in the calling process with
> differing values (i.e. that having SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS in one
> thread and not in another behaves as expected. If it does appear to
> work consistently, would you be willing to go down this route? Happy
> to do the patch, although it'd be very helpful to have a couple of
> pointers: I'm guessing the value would want to be captured just before
> the one place where SetErrorMode is already called, but in which
> structure should it then be stashed away to be reused in spawn?

Wanna try this?  It ignores the case of starting a process
under another user account for now, but that can be added easily
if this proves to work as expected.

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc b/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
index a40129c22232..f1017e69b6b2 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/dcrt0.cc
@@ -718,7 +718,8 @@ dll_crt0_0 ()
   init_windows_system_directory ();
   initial_env ();
 
-  SetErrorMode (SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX);
+  orig_proc_error_mode = SetErrorMode (SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS
+  | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX);
 
   lock_process::init ();
   user_data->impure_ptr = _impure_ptr;
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/globals.cc b/winsup/cygwin/globals.cc
index 885ada85e7b8..d2861ba98b42 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/globals.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/globals.cc
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ PWCHAR windows_directory = windows_directory_buf + 4;
 UINT windows_directory_length;
 UNICODE_STRING windows_directory_path;
 WCHAR global_progname[NT_MAX_PATH];
+UINT orig_proc_error_mode;
 
 /* program exit the program */
 
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
index 8a2db5cf72e2..df83f25d13c6 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/spawn.cc
@@ -648,6 +648,10 @@ child_info_spawn::worker (const char *prog_arg, const char 
*const *argv,
  && !::cygheap->user.groups.issetgroups ()
  && !::cygheap->user.setuid_to_restricted))
{
+ UINT orig_thread_error_mode = SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS
+   | SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX;
+ if (!iscygwin ())
+   SetThreadErrorMode (orig_proc_error_mode, _thread_error_mode);
  rc = CreateProcessW (runpath, /* image name w/ full path */
   cmd.wcs (wcmd),  /* what was passed to exec */
   sa,  /* process security attrs */
@@ -658,6 +662,8 @@ child_info_spawn::worker (const char *prog_arg, const char 
*const *argv,
   NULL,
   ,
   );
+ if (!iscygwin ())
+   SetThreadErrorMode (orig_thread_error_mode, NULL);
}
   else
{

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Re: Restore SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS [was: Aren't Windows System Error popups meant to be disabled in Cygwin?]

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  2 13:35, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote:
> 
> > > I'm sympathetic, and personally I would prefer to revert the patch and
> > > stick to SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS by default.
> > >
> > > The question is this: Why does, apparently, everybody expect Cygwin to
> > > do the "right thing", with different definitions of "right", when in
> > > fact the executable in question can easily call SetErrorMode by itself?
> >
> > Yeah, if cygwin wasn't involved in the process ancestry, how would you
> > get the behaviour you want?
> 
> Ah, but that's how I hit this (and started digging further) -
> precisely because the non-Cygwin program I'm using _has_ called
> SetErrorMode and its direct calls to the faulty program _are_ doing
> what's wanted (no popup dialog) but the calls which happen via Cygwin
> are then torching that preference.
> 
> Not really suggesting it be done this way (it feels more complicated
> than just reverting the change), but in some ways perhaps Cygwin
> should be using GetErrorMode on startup and instead of not inheriting
> it, ensuring that it sets whatever it received? i.e. just before the
> call to CreateProcess for a non-Cygwin binary, Cygwin restores the
> error mode (for that thread only) to the value read at startup, calls
> CreateProcess and then sets the error mode back.

This sounds like a good ide, but...

Is it actually a safe bet that the error mode set by SetThreadErrorMode
is then propagated as process error mode to the child process?

I have to ask that because Microsoft conveniently forgot to document
this scenario in the MSDN docs.


Corinna

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Re: Restore SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS [was: Aren't Windows System Error popups meant to be disabled in Cygwin?]

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  2 09:43, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 10:02, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
>  wrote:
> >
> > The behaviour changed in 2020
> >
> > https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=21ec498d7f912
> >
> > not without a discussion
> >
> > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2020q4/010870.html
> 
> Aha, thank you! (congrats on the 3.5 release, in passing, btw).
> Definitely not a regression, then (subject edited).
> 
> However, this patch came from MSYS2, and subsequently they seem to
> have found it problematic for the same reason as me
> (https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/pull/18#issuecomment-810897624)
> and have just recently reintroduced the flag
> (https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/commit/7616b8a2e0ffcf068b47e1a66bbb1dbd7d9b5c50)
> to control it.
> 
> The reasoning in
> https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2006-August/150081.html seems as
> valid now as it did in 2006.
> 
> Is it possible to revisit having the flag, or even just reverting the 
> behaviour?
> 
> FWIW, it's been "hurting" us over in OCaml-land since zstd support was
> added roughly a year ago - configure can tell us that mingw-w64's zstd
> is available, but woe betide us if we run the test program to see if
> it actually works, but the user forgot to add the sys-root into PATH,
> because at that point the CI system is down...

I'm sympathetic, and personally I would prefer to revert the patch and
stick to SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS by default.

The question is this: Why does, apparently, everybody expect Cygwin to
do the "right thing", with different definitions of "right", when in
fact the executable in question can easily call SetErrorMode by itself?


Corinna

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.5.0-1

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

I'm happy to announce update of the first Cygwin 3.5 release

==
   IMPORTANT DEPRECATION NOTES
==

- Cygwin 3.4.10 was the LAST major version supporting

  - Windows 7 / 8
  - Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012

- Cygwin 3.5.0 runs on

  - Windows 8.1 / 10 / 11
  - Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016 / 2019 / 2022
  - and (hopefully) all upcoming releases of Windows.

==

Here's what's new and changed compared to Cygwin 3.4.10:


What's new:
---

- Drop support for Windows 7, Windows 8, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012.

- Console devices (/dev/consN) are now accessible by processes attached
  to other consoles or ptys. Thanks to this new feature, GNU screen and
  tmux now work in the console.

- newgrp(1) tool.

- cygcheck has new options searching for available packages in the
  cygwin distro, as well as getting extended info on available and
  installed packages.

- fnmatch(3) and glob(3) now support named character classes, equivalence
  class expressions, and collating symbols in the search pattern, i.e.,
  [:alnum:], [=a=], [.aa.].

- Introduce /dev/disk directory with various by-* subdirectories which
  provide symlinks to disk and partition raw devices:
  by-drive/DRIVE_LETTER ->  ../../sdXN
  by-label/VOLUME_LABEL ->  ../../sdXN
  by-id/BUSTYPE-[VENDOR_]PRODUCT_[SERIAL|0xHASH][-partN] -> ../../sdX[N]
  by-partuuid/MBR_SERIAL-OFFSET -> ../../sdXN
  by-partuuid/GPT_GUID -> ../../sdXN
  by-uuid/VOLUME_SERIAL -> ../../sdXN
  by-voluuid/MBR_SERIAL-OFFSET -> ../../sdXN
  by-voluuid/VOLUME_GUID -> ../../sdXN
  The subdirectories by-drive and by-voluuid are Cygwin specific.

- Introduce /proc/codesets and /proc/locales with information on
  supported codesets and locales for all interested parties.  Locale(1)
  opens these files and uses the info for printing locale info like any
  other process could do.

- Add support for GB18030 codeset.

- Add support for lseek flags SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE, a GNU extension.

- New API calls: posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
  posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np.

- New API calls: c8rtomb, c16rtomb, c32rtomb, mbrtoc8, mbrtoc16, mbrtoc32.

- New API call: close_range (available on FreeBSD and Linux).

- New API call: fallocate (Linux-specific).

- Implement OSS-based sound mixer device (/dev/mixer).


What changed:
-

- posix_spawnp no longer falls back to starting the shell for unrecognized
  files as execvp.  For the reasoning, see
  https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1674

- FIFOs now also work on NFS filesystems.

- Enable automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs, independent of the
  "sparse" mount mode.

- When RLIMIT_CORE is more than 1MB, a core dump file which can be loaded by gdb
  is now written on a fatal error. Otherwise, if it's greater than zero, a text
  format .stackdump file is written, as previously.

- The default RLIMIT_CORE is now 0, disabling the generation of core dump or
  stackdump files.


Fixes:
--

- Fix arc4random reseeding after fork(2).
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-January/255245.html
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cygwin 3.5.0-1

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-announce]

I'm happy to announce update of the first Cygwin 3.5 release

==
   IMPORTANT DEPRECATION NOTES
==

- Cygwin 3.4.10 was the LAST major version supporting

  - Windows 7 / 8
  - Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012

- Cygwin 3.5.0 runs on

  - Windows 8.1 / 10 / 11
  - Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016 / 2019 / 2022
  - and (hopefully) all upcoming releases of Windows.

==

Here's what's new and changed compared to Cygwin 3.4.10:


What's new:
---

- Drop support for Windows 7, Windows 8, Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012.

- Console devices (/dev/consN) are now accessible by processes attached
  to other consoles or ptys. Thanks to this new feature, GNU screen and
  tmux now work in the console.

- newgrp(1) tool.

- cygcheck has new options searching for available packages in the
  cygwin distro, as well as getting extended info on available and
  installed packages.

- fnmatch(3) and glob(3) now support named character classes, equivalence
  class expressions, and collating symbols in the search pattern, i.e.,
  [:alnum:], [=a=], [.aa.].

- Introduce /dev/disk directory with various by-* subdirectories which
  provide symlinks to disk and partition raw devices:
  by-drive/DRIVE_LETTER ->  ../../sdXN
  by-label/VOLUME_LABEL ->  ../../sdXN
  by-id/BUSTYPE-[VENDOR_]PRODUCT_[SERIAL|0xHASH][-partN] -> ../../sdX[N]
  by-partuuid/MBR_SERIAL-OFFSET -> ../../sdXN
  by-partuuid/GPT_GUID -> ../../sdXN
  by-uuid/VOLUME_SERIAL -> ../../sdXN
  by-voluuid/MBR_SERIAL-OFFSET -> ../../sdXN
  by-voluuid/VOLUME_GUID -> ../../sdXN
  The subdirectories by-drive and by-voluuid are Cygwin specific.

- Introduce /proc/codesets and /proc/locales with information on
  supported codesets and locales for all interested parties.  Locale(1)
  opens these files and uses the info for printing locale info like any
  other process could do.

- Add support for GB18030 codeset.

- Add support for lseek flags SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE, a GNU extension.

- New API calls: posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
  posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np.

- New API calls: c8rtomb, c16rtomb, c32rtomb, mbrtoc8, mbrtoc16, mbrtoc32.

- New API call: close_range (available on FreeBSD and Linux).

- New API call: fallocate (Linux-specific).

- Implement OSS-based sound mixer device (/dev/mixer).


What changed:
-

- posix_spawnp no longer falls back to starting the shell for unrecognized
  files as execvp.  For the reasoning, see
  https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1674

- FIFOs now also work on NFS filesystems.

- Enable automatic sparsifying of files on SSDs, independent of the
  "sparse" mount mode.

- When RLIMIT_CORE is more than 1MB, a core dump file which can be loaded by gdb
  is now written on a fatal error. Otherwise, if it's greater than zero, a text
  format .stackdump file is written, as previously.

- The default RLIMIT_CORE is now 0, disabling the generation of core dump or
  stackdump files.


Fixes:
--

- Fix arc4random reseeding after fork(2).
  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-January/255245.html
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Re: Aren't Windows System Error popups meant to be disabled in Cygwin?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

On Feb  1 08:22, David Allsopp via Cygwin wrote:
> > x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc produces a Windows program, why Cygwin should
> > be involved in the execution ?
> 
> I perhaps should have made that crystal clear - in running "./test",
> I'm invoking that excecutable _from_ a Cygwin program (in this case
> mintty / bash / sh), so Cygwin is very much involved - it's the
> caller.
> 
> In the actual problem which hit this, I have a non-Cygwin executable
> which has called SetErrorMode(SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS). If that program
> calls test, there is no popup displayed. However, it also calls
> Cygwin's sh and _that_ executes that program too, so something like
> "C:\cygwin64\bin\sh -c "./test.exe | sed ..." but then the popup error
> message appears. So somewhere along the line, Cygwin appears to be
> resetting the system error mode, and that appears contrary to previous
> (old) messages on the subject.

The behaviour changed in 2020

https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commitdiff;h=21ec498d7f912

not without a discussion

https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2020q4/010870.html


Corinna

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[HEADSUP] any usage of cygwin_internal(CW_CMDLINE) in any maintained package?

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps]

Hi guys,

is anybody of you maintaining a package (or is aware of any package in
the Cygwin distro) which is using the cygwin_internal(CW_CMDLINE) call?

If not, I will redefine the usage of this call in Cygwin 3.6.

The reason is that it's practically unusable, unless the caller only
fetches the first string from the output.  The call also returns its
content in allocated memory which is not free'able by the caller :(


Thanks,
Corinna

Re: CYGWIN 1.5.3 END OF SUPPORT OR LIFE

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Sorry, I have to correct myself in terms of the license:

On Jan 30 16:16, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi Marvin,
> 
> On Jan 29 22:24, Marvin.C.Scott--- via Cygwin wrote:
> > Good day -
> > 
> > I represent a logistics team of users of CYGWIN freeware for a
> > government contract. In my role I am responsible for tracking support
> > and end of life for software assets.
> > 
> > In the before mentioned effort mentioned above I have a general
> > question.
> > 
> > Do CYGWIN freeware developers or contributors enact any end or
> 
> Careful, please.  Cygwin is NOT freeware!
> 
> Cygwin is licensed per the GNU General Public License version 3(*), and
> that contains a couple of restrictions and responsibilities you should
> be aware of.  If you're unsure about the difference, I urge you to
> contact your company's laywer to make sure you're in the clear.

Cygwin 1.5.3 was not yet under GPL v3.  Back in 2003, Cygwin was
still under the CYGWIN license, which was going like this:

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your option) any later version.

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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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sources are distributed under a license that complies with the Open
Source definition to be linked with libcygwin.a without libcygwin.a
itself causing the resulting program to be covered by the GNU GPL.

This means that you can port an Open Source(tm) application to cygwin,
and distribute that executable as if it didn't include a copy of
libcygwin.a linked into it.  Note that this does not apply to the cygwin
DLL itself.  If you distribute a (possibly modified) version of the DLL
you must adhere to the terms of the GPL, i.e. you must provide sources
for the cygwin DLL.

See http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html for the precise Open 
Source
Definition referenced above.

Red Hat sells a special Cygwin License for customers who are unable to
provide their application in open source code form.  For more
information, please see: http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/,
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The "special Cygwin License for customers who are unable to provide
their application in open source code form" is not active anymore.
Given that, you have to comply with the general rule of the GPL v2,
plus the GPL section 10 exception.

I.e., you *must not* provide proprietary software linked to the 
Cygwin DLL to your customers.

If in doubt, contact your company lawyer!


Corinna

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Re: CYGWIN 1.5.3 END OF SUPPORT OR LIFE

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi Marvin,

On Jan 29 22:24, Marvin.C.Scott--- via Cygwin wrote:
> Good day -
> 
> I represent a logistics team of users of CYGWIN freeware for a
> government contract. In my role I am responsible for tracking support
> and end of life for software assets.
> 
> In the before mentioned effort mentioned above I have a general
> question.
> 
> Do CYGWIN freeware developers or contributors enact any end or

Careful, please.  Cygwin is NOT freeware!

Cygwin is licensed per the GNU General Public License version 3(*), and
that contains a couple of restrictions and responsibilities you should
be aware of.  If you're unsure about the difference, I urge you to
contact your company's laywer to make sure you're in the clear.

> specific date when versions downloaded are available to users?

No, we don't.  In fact, there's even a "Cygwin time machine" on the
net(**), where you can grab basically any old version of Cygwin.

> I pose this question as my users currently employ a version prior the
> latest 3.4.9-1 September 2023 release. I assume the only negative
> impacts of using earlier version would be that my team would not have
> current bug fixes.

That's the gist of it, plus new features or changed behaviour to
more closely follow POSIX.

However, if your users actually use version 1.5.3, as the subject of
your mail implies, they are using a version which is more than 20(!)
years old.

Also, Cygwin 1.5.3 only exists in a 32 bit version.

Given that practically all recent hardware is 64 bit, most users of
Cygwin switched to 64 bit versions of Windows, and recent Cygwin
versions (3.4.0 and later) are only available as 64 bit versions,
you're *very* far behind.  We can't give any kind of support For
20 years old Cygwin releases, naturally.


Corinna

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(**) http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html

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Re: arc4random does not reseed after using fork()

[Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin]

Hi Johnothan,

On Jan 26 22:06, Johnothan King via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While testing ksh93u+m's recently added SRANDOM variable[1], I have
> discovered a bug in Cygwin's arc4random function. After using fork(),
> arc4random does not reseed itself, which causes the results to become
> predictable[2]. Below is a test case C program exhibiting the bug:
> 
> #include 
> #include 
> #include 
> #include 
> int main(void)
> {
>   pid_t child = fork();
>   if(child==0)
>   {
>   printf("%u %u %u\n", arc4random(), arc4random(), arc4random());
>   return 0;
>   }
>   else if(child==-1)
>   return 1;
>   waitpid(child, NULL, 0);
>   printf("%u %u %u\n", arc4random(), arc4random(), arc4random());
>   return 0;
> }

Thanks for the testcase.  I fixed that for Cygwin 3.5.  Please
try the latest test release cygwin-3.5.0-0.617.g030a762535c1,
which should be finished building in about an hour.


Thanks,
Corinna

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