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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Tom Schutter <t dot schutter at comcast dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:52:49 +0400
- 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>
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Greetings, Tom Schutter!
>> 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?
For me, it was a great improvement, except some rare (and largely unusual) cases.
And I didn't repeat the tests with latest incarnation of this feature.
You can check the mail archives for details.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 24.10.2014, <1:51>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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