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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: get rid of getpwent?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140214094504.GT2246@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3cywxsy.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

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On Feb 13 21:41, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Oh, hmm.  Well, it might be possible, but somehow I'm not excited by the
> > idea.  While it looks like getpwent is mostly used for this purpose, you
> > don't really know it.  I think I'll try to implement it fully and then
> > let the admin decide what to allow.
> 
> Configurable would be OK of course.  I'm not sure when I'll get around
> to testing the new snapshot, but I can certainly try how long it takes
> when I do "~<TAB>" in the shell.  IIRC, mkpasswd took several minutes to
> pull down the domain accounts (I've then deleted all but the handful
> that was used for network shares).

Keep in mind, the search in getpwent/getgrent is not yet implemented.
You only get what the application cached so far.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-14  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06  7:29 cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ? Marco Atzeri
2014-02-06  9:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-06 10:20   ` Marco Atzeri
2014-02-06 13:00     ` Jan Nijtmans
2014-02-06 14:02       ` Corinna Vinschen
     [not found]         ` <CAO1jNws3H_Wbec=y_UoYkhrb5nMX7iT7_A5XaHcQKCw32o055g@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-06 14:15           ` Fwd: " Jan Nijtmans
2014-02-06 14:28             ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-06 14:41               ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-06 14:13     ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-06 21:43       ` get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?) Warren Young
2014-02-07  9:49         ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-07 12:50           ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-07 17:26             ` Warren Young
2014-02-07 18:20               ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-07 13:53           ` David Stacey
2014-02-07 17:51             ` Warren Young
2014-02-07 19:21               ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-09 16:10               ` Warren Young
2014-02-09 16:16                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-09 16:31                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-09 16:37                     ` Ken Brown
2014-02-09 17:12                 ` David Stacey
2014-02-10 10:48                   ` Warren Young
2014-02-10 13:16                     ` Peter Rosin
2014-02-10 22:05                       ` Warren Young
2014-02-10 23:35                         ` David Stacey
2014-02-11  2:35                           ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-12  0:06                             ` David Stacey
2014-02-12  2:06                               ` Warren Young
2014-02-12  3:54                                 ` Eric Blake
2014-02-12  9:09                                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-12 12:05                                     ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-12 15:16                                     ` Richard
2014-02-12 16:24                                     ` Ken Brown
2014-02-12 17:05                                       ` Richard
2014-02-12 17:15                                       ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-12 20:49                                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-12 22:53                                         ` Christopher Faylor
2014-02-13 11:46                                           ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-13 14:35                                             ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-13 14:38                                             ` Christopher Faylor
2014-02-13 15:37                                               ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-13 15:48                                                 ` Christopher Faylor
2014-02-13 16:09                                                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-13 18:33                                             ` get rid of getpwent? Achim Gratz
2014-02-13 19:02                                               ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-13 20:41                                               ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-13 21:48                                                 ` Achim Gratz
2014-02-14  9:46                                                   ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-02-12  4:40                                 ` get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?) Andrey Repin
2014-02-07 20:09           ` Warren Young
2014-02-07 20:25             ` Warren Young
2014-02-07 21:01               ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-07 21:30             ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-07 21:49               ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2014-02-08 10:38                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-08 21:29                   ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2014-02-09  1:29                     ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2014-02-07 21:44             ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-02-07 22:45               ` David Stacey
2014-02-07 23:39                 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2014-02-08  0:50                   ` Andrey Repin
2014-02-08 15:19                     ` Warren Young
2014-02-08 15:39                       ` Warren Young
2014-02-09 20:06   ` cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ? Marco Atzeri
2014-02-09 20:20     ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-02-10 16:14       ` Marco Atzeri

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