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Re: passwd edited /etc/passwd patch


On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:04:11PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> --- Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:18:15PM -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > > +  /* Try getting a Win32 username in case the user edited /etc/passwd */
> > > +  if (ret == NERR_UserNotFound)
> > > +  {
> > > +    if ((pw = getpwnam (user)))
> > > +      cygwin_internal (CW_EXTRACT_DOMAIN_AND_USER, pw, domain, (char *)
> > user);
> > 
> > Thanks for the patch but, hmm, I think I'd prefer to look always for
> > the Cygwin username first.
> > It's unlikely and probably just an academic case but you could have
> > the Cygwin username user_a for the windows user user_b and vice versa.
> > 
> 
> Umm...kay. I was trying to avoid the extra system call, but I guess it
> probably won't make much difference. I'm having build problems right now 
> but I think this patch will do what you're asking. 

Applied.  I've checked in some additional changes.

Thanks,
Corinna

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