From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9384 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2014 20:18:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9374 invoked by uid 89); 14 Feb 2014 20:18:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 20:18:30 +0000 Received: (qmail 89425 invoked by uid 13447); 14 Feb 2014 20:18:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([68.35.121.157]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Feb 2014 20:18:26 -0000 Message-ID: <52FE7A10.3070500@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 21:49:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin References: <20140213143849.GH2246@calimero.vinschen.de> <52FD63BC.60800@etr-usa.com> <20140214104243.GY2246@calimero.vinschen.de> <52FE786F.9040203@etr-usa.com> In-Reply-To: <52FE786F.9040203@etr-usa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00380.txt.bz2 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