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Re: About "messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session"
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 20:21:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: About "messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session"
- References: <3.0.5.32.20031006192857.00823100@mail.attbi.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:28:57PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>>1) When you run 1.3.22 and you do ps -a from a Terminal Server session,
>>>do you see all Cygwin processes on the machine or only yours?
>
>>Only mine, only the ones that I have launched from my window/login
>>session.
>
>Do we want it this way or should the pinfos (and all other Cygwin
>shared) use the global name space?
I don't know. I noticed this recently myself and was surprised.
I think that pinfos should probably use a global name space but, on the
other hand, I sort of do like being able to keep users isolated from
each other. It's just not very unix-like.
>I don't have access to a machine running terminal services so I can't
>experiment.
Hmm. Time to see about getting you a Windows upgrade again. The last
time I asked my Microsoft "contact" he said that policies had changed
and it wasn't as easy to get software.
cgf