On Feb 7 10:51, Warren Young wrote:
> On 2/7/2014 06:53, David Stacey wrote:
> >On 07/02/2014 09:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>On Feb 6 14:43, Warren Young wrote:
> >>>I know a guy who currently has all of
> >>>Cygwin downloaded and ready to re-install, to test this.:)
> >>Try this: strings -f/bin/*.exe/bin/*.dll | grep getgrent
> >
> >Let me save you the trouble of reinstalling it
>
> Thank you!
>
> > Results attached.
>
> The cppcheck, cygqscintilla*.dll and nedit results are bogus. (i.e.
> They contain these strings for other reasons.) Here's a better
> check that doesn't give false positives:
>
> $ cat <<END > checkfile
> #!/bin/sh
> if egrep -q '_getgrent(32|64)' "$1" ; then echo $1 ; fi
> END
> $ find /bin -name \*.exe -exec ./checkfile {} \;
>
> cygperl*.dll includes the functions only because it wraps them. I
> assume Perl's configuration script is smart enough to cope if
> they're missing.Just to clarify: The entry points won't go away, but they might be *sort of* non-functional. They will, for a start, only enumerate the accounts which are cached in the process, which may be only two (current user and her primary group), or none at all. > Emacs...why am I not surprised that it uses these old functions? > > Vim does not, therefore Vim is the superior text editor. (I kid.) You dont ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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