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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:00:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1
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- References: <announce dot 20141022092323 dot GH32374 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <20141023030003 dot GB9370 at pixel dot schutter dot home>
Tom Schutter writes:
> On Wed 2014-10-22 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> The major change in this new release is the new method to read account
>> (passwd and group) information from the Windows user databases directly,
>> without the requirement to generate /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to
>> generate Unix-like uid and gid.
>
> What do you think the performance implications of this change will be?
In my experience Cygwin starts up quite a bit faster actually. If a
program tries to enumerate the complete domain then yes that would be
slow if your domain is large, but then you can use /etc/nsswitch.conf to
forbid that.
Regards,
Achim.
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