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Re: ntsec: patch 9


On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 05:59:04PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:38:22PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>The answer is definitely 'no'. In my environments on every computer cygwin1.dll
>>is in /usr/bin directory. If I test new dlls, I rename the old one to e.g
>>cygwin1.dllX and copy the new one again to /usr/bin. With this method, I don't
>>have evil surprises. Moreover I have explicitly checked it by running `find'.
>
>Thanks.  I was 99% sure that this was the case.
>
>>I know, it's not the answer, you like to get :-(
>
>How dare you.  :-)
>
>>Should we (Larry and me) try it without the aforementioned detection code?
>>If so, how can I disable it?
>
>The only way to do it is to back out the patch.  I really can't see how *that*
>particular patch could have that particular problem.
>
>Hmm.  I wonder if something changed in newlib.

Hi,
strace should behave a little better in the next snapshot.  I tracked down
one obvious problem but there is another one lurking there.  Hopefully it
will work well enough now to get an strace log of your 'man tcsh' failure.

-chris

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