Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Brian Kasper wrote: >> I'm not sure why it worked, but it does. I performed at least one >> update of Cygwin recently, so it's possible I have a newer version of >> something. > > You mean you're not sure why it didn't work before, right? I mean, > everybody uses these scripts to configure a working sshd server so > one expects them to work (rather than not work). If they didn't, one > would expect a great outcry on this list from everybody that tried > them, right?
Exactly. I'm not sure why it worked this time when it didn't work previously on the same system. Of course, with the number of people who use these scripts on a daily basis, I'd assume they should work, and any bugs should be found in short order -- "many eyes make all bugs shallow" -- but unless something changed between my first and second attempts, I would generally expect to get the same result. Since I didn't get the same result, I was wondering what might have changed between my first and second attempts. I suppose it's possible that nothing changed, but that would imply the problem I was having is nondeterministic, which implies a category of bug that I wouldn't expect in such mature software. -B -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
