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Re: CSIH csih_get_cygenv function (was Re: permission problems with ssh-host-config)
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> What was the exact reason to restrict the input for the CYGWIN settings
> in csih? I don't quite understand why a lot of options are disallowed
> at all, for instance "winsymlinks", "ntea", etc.
Inherited from pre-existing code (either old ssh-*-config or exim-config).
> IMHO this doesn't make much sense, especially given that Cygwin 1.7
> has a quite different set of CYGWIN settings.
I don't mind removing that.
> What I'm planning to do is this:
>
> - In cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh I would like to drop the
> check for the content of CYGWIN entirely.
OK.
> - In ssh-host-config I'd like to set the default for the CYGWIN settings
> to an empty string.
OK.
> What do you think?
We still have the on-going confusion concerning "Do you want to use
another name?" with -y. I'm hung up on libtool issues right now, but
that's on the list to be addressed. However, I won't hold up a release
of csih-0.19 waiting for that.
BTW, do you think we should fork csih for cygwin-1.7?
--
Chuck
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