On Apr 10 14:24, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/10/2014 01:46 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> * 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. > > > > Does this mean there is no caching without cygserver running? > > > >> * Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username. > > > > This one always seemed a bit odd to me. The only use I could think up > > is if your Windows username contains non-ASCII or spaces and you'd want > > to avoid dealing with that within Cygwin. > > Windows allows usernames with spaces. POSIX says such names are > non-portable (although it doesn't go so far as to completely exclude > them). Furthermore, tilde expansion does NOT work for user names with > spaces. > > I've had machines in the past where my windows username had a space; the > ability to remap my passwd file to a non-space name was a lifesaver.
... and this remapping username via /etc/passwd will not go away. It's the DB search which is a problem in terms of a special Cygwin username. Doing this with /etc/passwd is a no-brainer. See my mail I just wrote: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-04/msg00298.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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