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/etc/passwd dependency of cygwin
- From: "Vishal Jain" <vxj45 at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:21:40 -0800
- Subject: /etc/passwd dependency of cygwin
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Hi,
How does cygwin library depend on uid's and gid's in /etc/passwd?
If I replace it with my custom /etc/passwd file and replace cygwin's
seteuid/geteuid calls with custom implementation, will my application work?
How does cygwin internally uses uid's and gid's?
thanks,
Vishal
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