On Feb 21 12:25, cyg Simple wrote: > > From: Corinna Vinschen > > > > Maybe it is actually simpler than that. Invalidating the cache as a whole > > probably never makes sense. In fact there are two reasons for > > invalidation: > > > > - The pw_name, pw_shell, pw_home, pw_gecos settings for a user changed. > > > > How is pw_name going to change without a logoff?
You're looking at the current user only. I'm talking about creating arbitrary passwd entries. > > - The interface to the DC was broken and there are entries of the type > > Achim mentioned, "DOM+User(RID)". > > > > The first case can only be fixed by invalidating the cache on a regular > > basis. If > > we didn't fetch the info for a user for, say, 5 minutes, drop the entry > > from the > > cache and renew the information by asking the DC again. > > > > Maybe too many requests to the DC for all users? Couldn't you just > reinitialize if the network data changes? There are times when I > would be on the DC and times when I am not with the same account. Doesn't matter, we're not invalidating the cache yet anyway. It was just idle musing. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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