Corinna Vinschen wrote:
* cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching.
All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd
and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit
slow at the start, the longer cygserver runs, the more information
is present and later started processes will get the information
with all due speed.
This sounds awesome.
* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username.
[snip]
Therefore I think it would be better to remove this functionality.
If you really think you have to use a username different from the
Windows username, you should probably use a tiny /etc/passwd file
with just this entry. The new mkpasswd will create a default entry
for you with just needs minor tweaking.
I haven't contributed much to this testing, but I'm on board with that idea.
* db_separator in /etc/nsswitch.conf
Is it really such a good idea to have a configurable separator
char in user and group names? Is it important that it is
configurable? Is '+' a good choice for the default separator?
Wouldn't the backslash a better and, perhaps, only choice?
I'd vote against '+' and in favor of '\' as long as there is no
potential for confusion with Windows Domains and accounts/machine names,
i.e. <domain name>\{<user name>,<machine name>}.
It doesn't sound to me like that would be an issue with how you want to
use things, but that's my only concern at the moment.
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Chris J. Breisch
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