On 2015-02-28 13:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 28 00:51, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Playing with mkgroup and mkpasswd like others, i also >> noticed some great improvement in performance: >> now less than 5min for 404653 entries (mkpasswd -d) >> and less that 1min for 127048 entries (mkgroup -d). >> Before it was nearly 1 hour for each. >> >> Playing also with /etc/group, i happened to enter >> an empty group (i.e. line begins with colon) and >> e.g. ls -al fails miserably in this case (and segfault >> seems to lie in cygwin1.dll). > > I'm not overly sympathetic with screwed up /etc/passwd or /etc/group > files. In this case it was a missing error check. I applied a fix > and the next version won't crash in this situation.
Thank you. In fact i need /etc/group since i want to display the same group _name_ when i'm AD-connected and when i am not. Until now i was happy with "Domain Users". From now on i'll use "-". Denis Excoffier. -- 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
