Re: CVS commit: src/games/phantasia
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 05:00:21PM +, Jared D. McNeill wrote: Module Name: src Committed By: jmcneill Date: Sat Feb 16 17:00:21 UTC 2013 Modified Files: src/games/phantasia: Makefile Log Message: Rename 'setup' host tool to 'mkdata' to make UAC happen when building with Cygwin. For those happy to never been exposed to this acronym: he is talking about the Windows User Annoyance Coolaid which campaigns with it's brother VUS (Keep virtualy all Users Stupid) to make expert users (defined as those users that grok the concept of a pathname) look like complete idiots. Martin P.S.: seriously, I think the commit message should be fixed, windows termionloogy moves faster than marketing buzzwords, so you should explain that something claiming to be a user protection feature of windows makes it painfull to automatically run binaries called setup.
Re: CVS commit: src/games/phantasia
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013, Martin Husemann wrote: For those happy to never been exposed to this acronym: he is talking about the Windows User Annoyance Coolaid which campaigns with it's brother VUS (Keep virtualy all Users Stupid) to make expert users (defined as those users that grok the concept of a pathname) look like complete idiots. Let me explain the issue to you, as this is not (directly) about user protection, but instead about compat. The UAC executable name check was added in Vista, since administrative users don't run every executable with admin privileges. In this case, the run as administrator UAC dialog is there to help legacy software installers. Under Cygwin (where I'm running build.sh), it doesn't guarantee that a GUI is available to present the UAC dialog, so legacy executables try to elevate privileges, and fail (no GUI!) so permission denied is returned. This behaviour can be overriden by supplying a prog.exe.manifest file that specifies the requested permissions. Christos fixed this in bsd.hostprog.mk but the two culprits in src/games don't use that mechanism (and should probably be fixed to do so).
Re: CVS commit: src/games/phantasia
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 09:39:18AM -0500, Jared McNeill wrote: permissions. Christos fixed this in bsd.hostprog.mk but the two culprits in src/games don't use that mechanism (and should probably be fixed to do so). I understand - but the point is: a cvs log refering to an unqualified acronym like UAC may be completely unparsable for most users in five years from now if you do not qualify it or explain a bit of background. Even users knowing about UAC in general and associating it with the run with admin privs dialog may not know about the very stupid implementation details like wildcard name matches on the binaries. Certainly the binaries you touched do not actually require admin privs on cygwin, or if so, that would be another bug. Martin
Re: CVS commit: src/games/phantasia
I've updated the commit message for src/games/phantasia/Makefile r1.36 and src/games/adventure/Makefile r1.14 to clarify the issue: Workaround a toolchain issue by renaming the 'setup' host tool to 'mkdata' to make UAC happy when building with Cygwin. As described here -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb756960.aspx -- 32-bit executables whose filenames include the strings 'install', 'setup', 'update', 'patch', etc. by default will request admin privileges unless an application manifest is provided.
