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Re: rcp, rsh don't work on Vista?


On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:22:56PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>On Thu, 31 May 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>
>> TITTTL'd
>>
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>> >   We need a new description for the specially vicious and malign kind of
>> > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#3PP who not only installs cygwin1.dll in the
>> > systemroot, but then goes to the extra lengths of hiding it as well.
>> >
>> >   Maybe we could call them 3PP++ ;-)
>>
>> Not that I don't like 3PP++ also, but I vote for EV3PP (EV = Extra
>> Vicious).
>
>The extra viciousness comes from Windows, which, by default, hides the
>contents of SYSTEMROOT...  Much as we'd like to blame 3PPs, this one is
>not their fault. :-)

There have been a couple reports now of 3PA's actually doing a
"chmod +H cygwin1.dll", though, I believe.

cgf


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