Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >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. I think he was asking, if we are _required_ to install cygserver, or the dll is enough? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 13.04.2014, <14:37> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
