Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> > unix="value" Sets the NFS/Samba uid of the user to the decimal >> > value. See the next chapter. >> >> I know I'm bikeshedding, but "unix" seems like a pretty vague >> attribute name here. >> >> unix="good" ? >> unix="linux" ? >> unix="yesplease" ? >> >> I'd be happier with "uid" or similar. >> >> Write it in a sentence: >> >> a. My uid is 502; vs >> b. My unix is 502.
> Would you believe me that I sweated about this, too? The important > thing to consider is, the keyword should not give the impression, that > the uid or gid set at this point is the Cygwin uid or gid. It's only > the uid/gid of your NFS or Samba account on that weird Linux box. > Really, I'm open to suggestions to have a better keyword, but it > should make very clear that this is not your Cygwin uid/gid. nfsUid/-Gid Since it is almost exclusively used to talk to NFS servers. >> > If you create or change /etc/nsswitch.conf, >> > make sure to stop and restart all Cygwin processes to pick up >> > the change. >> >> "All" processes? >> >> If I have cron running, then exit the one instance of MinTTY after >> vim'ing /etc/nsswitch.conf, will the file be read when I re-open >> MinTTY? >> >> cron.exe is running in a different process group, isn't it? >> >> If true, I realize cron.exe and any programs it runs will continue >> to believe there is no /etc/nsswitch.conf until *it* restarts. > You are absolutely right, but, please, suggest a better wording. > This is what I'm trying to explain in fact, but everything I came > up with sounded like beating around the bush, more confusing than > helping. "...each relevant Cygwin process tree needs to be restarted to catch up"? Something along these lines. Since these tokens maintained on per-tree basis, inherited from the very first Cygwin process started. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 14.02.2014, <16:19> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
