On Apr 10 13:21, Ken Brown wrote: > On 4/10/2014 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > > > >The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again. > >It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group > >account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group > >files. > > > >Not a lot has changed since we made a break to test for 1.7.29, > >but there's one important change I'd like to point out: > > > >* cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching. > > > > All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd > > and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit > > slow at the start, the longer cygserver runs, the more information > > is present and later started processes will get the information > > with all due speed. > > Do we need to install cygserver.exe from the snapshot in order to > get this functionality, or is cygwin1.dll enough?
This required new code in cygserver to handle the application requests, so you need the snapshot cygserver. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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