On Apr 13 14:38, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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?
I didn't understand it that way, but of course cygserver is just an option, to get another, system-wide way of caching, not a requirement to get caching at all. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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