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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at NexGo dot DE>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:54:51 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> 1 second? That sounds still a bit slow. Considering that I'm now
> member of 414 groups, and you are member of 440 groups, the extra number
> of groups cannot account for that.
>
> This sounds surprisingly as if the
> names of some of your groups are not cached on your machine. Or
> something. Or is this a rather slow machine?!?
It's not a slow machine by any means, but it certainly gets its fair share
of security policies, so it may have something to do with that. I don't know.
> Still, it seems like the right thing to do to drop the group name
> configuration stuff entirely.
Yes (unless you'd want to make it configurable like the getpwent stuff).
Regards,
Achim.
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