On Feb 28 00:51, Denis Excoffier wrote: > Hi, > > Playing with mkgroup and mkpasswd like others, i also > noticed some great improvement in performance: > now less than 5min for 404653 entries (mkpasswd -d) > and less that 1min for 127048 entries (mkgroup -d). > Before it was nearly 1 hour for each. > > Playing also with /etc/group, i happened to enter > an empty group (i.e. line begins with colon) and > e.g. ls -al fails miserably in this case (and segfault > seems to lie in cygwin1.dll).
I'm not overly sympathetic with screwed up /etc/passwd or /etc/group files. In this case it was a missing error check. I applied a fix and the next version won't crash in this situation. HTH, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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