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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)


On Jan 12 15:50, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> >> > I added a %H specifier to the /path schema which is substituted by the
> >> > Windows home path in POSIX notation.  So, what you should be able to do
> >> > now is something like:
> >> >
> >> >   db_home: /%H/cygwin
> >> 
> >> I've used
> >> 
> >>    db_home: %H/cygwin
> 
> > Meep!  Did you read the preliminary user's guide?  You really should.
> 
> >   https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ug/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-passwd
> 
> > The leading slash is in integral part of the "path" scheme,  The above
> > is not recognized as valid entry at all.
> 
> Speaking of validity of entries.
> I was toying around with my chain of VM's, and got to think about a way to
> debug new nsswitch.conf configurations.
> Is there an easy way to see, what steps are performed, and what results are
> returned, from schemes specified in nsswitch.conf ?

I'm not sure I understand the question.  Just change the db_home
or whatever entry to another one and start another mintty?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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