Re: posix_spawn facility

2023-07-31 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
Following up on an older thread: On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 03:49:20PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > The glibc bug points to the sample posix_spawn() implementation in > POSIX XRAT - but that example implementation is non-normative and > known buggy, so it is not safe to rely on it. > > Clarifying the

Re: posix_spawn facility

2023-04-18 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:10:34AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > we now have implementations in the wild that differ in behavior, and > > use security as a reason for the divergence, it is worth getting that > > clarified in POSIX. I'll file a bug against POSIX shortly > >

Re: posix_spawn facility

2023-04-18 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:25:11AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > Hi Bruno, > > On Apr 17 20:44, Bruno Haible via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi Corinna, Jumping in to this conversation a bit belatedly, but as someone on the Austin Group that can try to get an answer upstream... > But I'm

Re: [ITCM] diffutils findutils

2021-08-04 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin-apps
On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 06:43:25PM -0600, Brian Inglis wrote: > Hi folks, > > Eric Blake no longer seems to have free time available for Cygwin package > upgrades, so I would like to offer to co-maintain diffutils and findutils, > and provide upgrades, as they are both five years old. Indeed,

Re: Is it possible to alter Birth time?

2020-10-08 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
On 10/8/20 4:33 AM, Fergus Daly via Cygwin wrote: > In Cygwin (and on some, not all, Linux file systems) the command > $ stat filename > shows all of Access, Modify, Change and Birth times of a file. > The command > $ touch [options] filename > will alter some or all of Access, Modify, Change

Re: calm bounces

2020-04-16 Thread Eric Blake via Cygwin
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