Re: Name aliasing in security.cc

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 08:23:59PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> I saw the changes in grp.cc and passwd.cc where you make default
> entries from the token. That's a good idea, very close to what I had 
> in mind for the "except" clause" in suggestion c) above.
> 
> At any rate this doesn't favor keeping lookup_name() and using it
> up only in alloc_sd(). So you could still apply my patches, even if
> you want to move from b) to the direction of c).

Ok, applied.

> >However, I think calling lookup_name in internal_getlogin() is 
> >somewhat useless.
> I agree. My patches remove it, but replace it with something similar.
> I will remove it later if you apply them.
> 
> By the way, your ChangeLog entry is missing "* passwd.cc " :) :) :) 

Thanks, I've fixed that.

Corinna

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