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Re: [RFA] A kinder, gentler check for /etc/{passwd,group} changes
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- Subject: Re: [RFA] A kinder, gentler check for /etc/{passwd,group} changes
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 00:16:56 -0400
- References: <EA18B9FA0FE4194AA2B4CDB91F73C0EF7A25@itdomain002.itdomain.net.au>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:43:20PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
>> Anyway, I'm not arguing against finer grained /etc/passwd checking, as
>> you noted, and Corinna has already implemented it, so...
>
>I'd just like to say to you and Corinna - Woohoo! those timings look
>nice.
Actually, now that I think of it, they should be faster. When I was benchmarking
vfork, I was seeing something like 10-20% improvements over 1.3.2.
I'm not going to worry about that yet.
>> Cygwin has to be able to work like it does now without the daemon. I
>> think that is what Corinna was saying.
>
>In other words we don't move anything that works today into the daemon,
>without keeping a non-daemon option.
>
>Hmm, lets see how that goes :]. I suspect we'll end up with a
>frustatingly long list of "Gee it would be nice to x, but that currently
>works without the daemon".
I still think that it might be possible to have a "works better with daemon"
"works ok without daemon" scenario, somehow.
I'm just not sure how, yet.
cgf