On Feb 18 18:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 18 18:16, J.H. vd Water wrote: > > >> this week I applied the first incarnation of the new passwd/group > > >> handling code to the Cygwin repository and after fixing a crash which > > >> manifested in Denis Excoffier's network, I think we're at a point > > >> which allows to push this forward. > > >> [...] > > > > > >Ok guys, I just applied a patch implementing getpwent and getgrent, > > >and the way to configure the output is probably more detailed than > > >you ever wanted ... > > > > Hi Corinna, > > > > As I saw no response to your latest call for testers, I decided to test it > > myself ... (x86-XP, SP3). > > > > - setup "Cygwin" (base) in a different directory > > - applied tar ball (17/2 snapshot) as instructed at > > > > http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots > > > > After I had set up /etc/nsswitch.conf as follows > > > > db_enum: files > > > > the output of getpwent and getgrent looked "familiar" to me. (though the > > output of 'id' is not). > > In how far? Did you read my text in terms of how user and group names > are created? The leading separator char for builtin groups is an SFU > thingy. If it's too disturbing we can discuss changing that, but right > now I'm still looking for some kind of similarity. > > > However, after I had modified /etc/nsswitch.conf as follows > > > > db_enum: local > > > > getpwent crashed (segment violation) ... > > Thanks for testing, but I can't reproduce this. I tried on 32 bit > Windows 7 and 64 bit Windows 8.1. > > How did you build getpwent? Did you stop your Cygwin shell and restart > it? Can you please send the getpwent.exe.stackdump file?
And, is the machine a domain member machine or not? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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