Future ntsec-detection problem in sshd (Re: winsup/cygwin ChangeLog security.cc)

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Sun Jul 28 02:12:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 11:35, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 10:45:20AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 02:13, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >> Breaking backwards compatibility gratuitously is not desirable.
> >> 
> >> In this case however, this could be implemented as a "cygwin_internal" function
> >> anyway, which would mean not having to worry about loading the function.
> >> 
> >> However, checking the cygwin api version should be sufficient too.  That's
> >> what it is there for.
> >
> >What about a /proc entry?
> 
> It's already available via uname() and via /proc/version:

I meant for the ntsec thing.
i.e 
==
cat /proc/cygwinoptions
ntsec
binmode
==

Rob

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