ATTN: daemon maintainers -- proposed csih changes [Was: Re: [ITP] tftp-hpa 5.0]

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 15 12:32, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Obviously, the easiest solution is to just document the current behavior:
>   ... with the exception of csih_is_nt2003, which true for both 64bit
> Windows XP, as well as NT Server 2003 and higher, since XP64 shares the
> same kernel as (64bit) NT2003.  See email thread blah for more
> information...
> 
> and update the messages about privileged users in the documentation and
> warning messages (which needs to be done, regardless).

+1

> Really, this is what I get for violating autoconf's recommendations when
> "designing" csih: never base capability tests on OS version numbers;
> test for and indicate the capabilities themselves...

That's why we introduced wincap in Cygwin at one point...


Corinna

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