Peter,
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:36:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Jason Tishler writes:
>
> > I used 7.1rc4 from Cygwin's contrib and everything seems to work as
> > expected. The regression tests all passed. Even the enhanced
> > AF_UNIX
> > security worked as advertised. If the client (i.e., psql) has read
> > access to the socket file (i.e., /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432), then it can
> > connect
> > to postmaster. Otherwise, the client gets a "Permission denied"
> > failure.
>
> Actually, connections to Unix domain sockets are controlled by *write*
> access to the socket file. Maybe Cygwin should change this.
I'm not sure that the above is possible, but I will forward to the
cygwin-developers list for comment.
Jason
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