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Re: FW: Win32 XServer
- To: Mike MacDonald <mmacdona at tsi dot gte dot com>
- Subject: Re: FW: Win32 XServer
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:38:40 -0500
- Cc: "'Suhaib Siddiqi'" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>, "'Cygwin-Xfree at Sourceware dot Cygnus dot Com'" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <D7FDE5F0B39AD21181AA00805FA7183E040ABA54@tpaexc02.tsi.gte.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 11:26:56AM -0500, Mike MacDonald wrote:
>Alot of people out there telling us it can't be done.. That REALLY pisses
>me off.. Anyway, theres a setruid function that I'm missing.. Is it out
>there, or do I gotta hack one together? I had the same problem with Eterm,
>I just hacked it out, but I don't know that I want to go around mindlessly
>hacking X code :).. Besides, it might be why Eterm didn't work.. Prolly
>not, but who knows?
>
>/usr/src/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c:975: undefined
>reference to `setruid'
>/usr/src/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c:989: undefined
>reference to `setruid'
I can't imagine that it would matter in a cygwin application. We don't
even have the concept of real and effective UIDs.
So maybe you need a '-Dsetruid(x)=0' somewhere?
cgf