In message <52ec4727.2000...@gmail.com>you write: >On 1/31/2014 5:03 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jan 31 22:40, Frank Fesevur wrote: >>> 2014-01-31 Corinna Vinschen: >>>> Is anybody here who's using /etc/passwd and/or group files >>>> of more than 16K in size? >>> The new way to store the stuff would make Cygwin definitely faster, >>> but it would struggle with... uhm... 2.6 Megs file on the 32 bit >>> version of Cygwin, Hmm. I'm wondering how to solve that elegantly. >>> Corinna > >Every process needs to load only the current user's entry up front. >Somewhere down the road it only *might* have to do things like translate >from uid/gid into a string for directory listings, in some cases only a >handful of these translations. It's essentially a (old dbm style unix) >database lookup. > >So defer the database lookups to a libgdbm that goes against a (old dbm >style unix) database, and don't keep that in memory, unless you want a >small LRU algorithm in there to keep a small fixed number. I bet the >tiny delay later on a ls or other unix translation won't be very noticeable. >
Maybe an /etc/nsswitch.conf to choose the desired behavior? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
