Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-09-15 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-09-13 12:00, Christian Franke wrote: Eric Blake wrote: (by passing an actual safe path, and NOT by completely unsetting PATH). Disagree. The postfix master(8) spawns all of its daemons with PATH unset. This IMO does not violate POSIX. Note that setting PATH=/bin on Cygwin does

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-09-15 Thread Peter Rosin
(sorry for replying to self) On 2014-09-15 09:44, Peter Rosin wrote: Also, SetDllDirectory will kill all attempts to run 32-bit Cygwin programs from 64-bit Cygwin (and vice versa). At least I think so. Cheers, Peter -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: /usr/bin/install doesn't install files from Makefile

2014-09-15 Thread Michael Osipov
Am 2014-09-14 um 21:16 schrieb Marco Atzeri: On 14/09/2014 19:28, Michael Osipov wrote: On 14/09/2014 13:16, Michael Osipov wrote: Hi, I am trying to install an application which autoconf. While configure and make run fine, make install does it's job but no files and directories are created

Re: Using DLL compiled with Cygwin inside Visual Studio 2010

2014-09-15 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Csaba Raduly! B. **OFF-TOPIC**: How can I reply to a specific message in the mailing list? I'm pretty sure that just mention the same title won't be enough. even tho that what I'm trying to do right now... I'm not subscribed to

Re: /usr/bin/install doesn't install files from Makefile

2014-09-15 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Michael Osipov wrote: Hi, I am trying to install an application which autoconf. While configure and make run fine, make install does it's job but no files and directories are created at the end. As if no action has happened. I am building asciidoc-8.6.9

Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset

2014-09-15 Thread Christian Franke
Peter Rosin wrote: On 2014-09-13 12:00, Christian Franke wrote: Note that setting PATH=/bin on Cygwin does not fix the security problem in the DLL search order. Even with SafeDllSearchMode enabled, the current directory is always checked before PATH. Running some Cygwin program from

Re: Fwd: Need help port forwarding with ssh and cygwin...

2014-09-15 Thread David Rothenberger
Steven Dennis wrote: So I went to http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/install.121/e22624/preinstall_req_cygwin_ssh.htm I don't recommend following third-party instructions about how to make Cygwin work. There's plenty of good experienced people on this list willing to help and third-party