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RE: FW: Win32 XServer
- To: "Mike MacDonald" <mmacdona at tsi dot gte dot com>, <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: FW: Win32 XServer
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at ipass dot net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:03:53 -0500
I did not patch XF86Config.c yet, because to use XF86Config, first you need
XF86 servers functional. XF86Config access vieo memory and io ports
directly,
unless there are drivers, it would be of not much at the moment.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Mike MacDonald
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 3:57 PM
> To: 'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: RE: FW: Win32 XServer
>
>
> Thanx, I found that just before, and just after the setruid function calls
> there were a bunch of if !defines for a bunch of other os' - so I
> just added
> Cygwin..
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf@cygnus.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 3:39 PM
> To: Mike MacDonald
> Cc: 'Suhaib Siddiqi'; 'Cygwin-Xfree@Sourceware.Cygnus.Com'
> Subject: Re: FW: Win32 XServer
>
>
> 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
>
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