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Re: Slowdown
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 16:51:19 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Slowdown
--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >If on entering from Windows a user doesn't have HOME defined and
> >doesn't have a home in passwd, and doesn't have HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH,
> >then let's set HOME to some sane value such as WINDIR or c:\,
> >rather than risking a lookup. The user will eventually run mkpasswd...
>
> Really? That's a departure from the way things used to work, isn't it?
> Don't you think there will be complaints?
>
Probably, depending on the affects. I never run mkpasswd, and if it's run by
default I always rm /etc/passwd /etc/group. I'm always using the emulated
passwd code. Assuming that a user will do something when there are options
others always makes an ...
Earnie.
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