Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 19 18:50:00 GMT 2014
On Feb 19 18:56, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
> >> this week I applied the first incarnation of the new passwd/group
> >> handling code to the Cygwin repository and after fixing a crash which
> >> manifested in Denis Excoffier's network, I think we're at a point
> >> which allows to push this forward.
> >> [...]
>
> > Ok guys, I just applied a patch implementing getpwent and getgrent,
> > and the way to configure the output is probably more detailed than
> > you ever wanted:
>
> > db_enum: source...
>
> Setting
>
> db_enum: local
>
> seems to be really destructive.
> I'm not good at reading straces, so... Can I make a useful trace for your
> inspection?
> So far, I'm unable to start anything with freshly rebuilt Cygwin1.dll
> if db_enum set to local. Even uname -a crashes.
The last one is weird since uname doesn't call getpwent.
Anyway, with more help from Denis Excoffier I think I got it. I'm
just building a new snapshot which should be up in half an hour or so.
Please give it a try.
Thanks,
Corinna
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