Group Permissions on root folders problem (Windows 10 TP build 10061)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep 10 11:36, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/10/2015 11:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >>>> -      if [ "\\\\${COMPUTERNAME,,*}" != "${LOGONSERVER,,*}" ]
> >>>> +      if [ "\\\\${COMPUTERNAME,,*}" != "${LOGONSERVER,,*}" \
> >>>> +	   -a "${LOGONSERVER}" != "\\\\MicrosoftAccount" ]
> >>>>        then
> >>>>  	# Lowercase of USERDOMAIN
> >>>>        	csih_PRIVILEGED_USERNAME="${COMPUTERNAME,,*}+${username}"
> >>>
> >>> Thanks a lot, much appreciated.  Patch applied.
> >>
> >> [ ... -a ... ] is not portable; there are some inherently ambiguous
> >> situations that it cannot handle. POSIX recommends that you spell it [
> >> ... ] && [ ... ] instead.
> > 
> > Does this matter in this very situation?  This is always running under
> > bash, btw.  Bash's a requirement for the csih helper script.
> 
> Because you are at least using bash, you will get consistent behavior;
> and because both ... are 3-argument tests, it is unlikely that one of
> the tests can be confused with other operators like '(' or ')'.  So, I
> guess it's okay to leave it alone here.  But even with bash, the use of
> -a can cause problems when testing user-supplied variables that might
> happen to expand to text that looks like potential operators.

Feel free to change that in the csih repo.  Csih is under git now,
see https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-csih.git.  You're in the
cygwin-apps group, so you have checkin rights.

If I didn't mention that before, I'm glad for any help since I only took
over because Chuck disappeared.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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