On Feb 13 09:48, Steven Penny wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > For as long as Cygwin has existed, it has stored user and group > > information in /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Under the assumption > > that these files would never be too large, the first process in a > > process tree, as well as every execing process within the tree would > > parse them into structures in memory. Thus every Cygwin process would > > contain an expanded copy of the full information from /etc/passwd and > > /etc/group. > > Stellar writeup! I read the whole post. I am happy to help, but I have couple > of > questions > > - How will this affect "normal" users, that is to say one admin user on one > computer with no domain or networking? Will it be better to use this new > system or keep /etc/passwd?
That should have been clear from the writeup. Just continue to use /etc/passwd and /etc/group if you're not comfortable to change your local SAM. But my mail also contains examples how to change your SAM entry from the CMD or bach command line. > - Do you have any benchmarks available? Or instructions on how we could test > the > speed of the new system? Nope. Try something time-consuming you're doing every day under time(1), I guess. Building some project or so. But first get comfortable with the new output of `id' and `ls -l' in some environments. I'm all for performance, but functionality first, please. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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