This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:18:24 -0700
- Subject: Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <20140213143849 dot GH2246 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <52FD63BC dot 60800 at etr-usa dot com> <20140214104243 dot GY2246 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <52FE786F dot 9040203 at etr-usa dot com>
On 2/14/2014 13:11, Warren Young wrote:
"The reason we point all this out is that the requirements for
restarting things are not quite as stringent as when you replace
cygwin1.dll. If you have three process trees, you have three independent
copies of the nsswitch information. You do not need to restart any of
them for a new process tree to see the changes, but until each restarts,
they will not see the change."
EDIT, replace last sentence:
"If you start a fresh process tree, it will see the changes. As long as
any process in an existing process tree remains running, all processes
in that tree will continue to use the old information."
--
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