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Re: Cygwin 3.0.1-1 Breaks ALL cygwin applications on Windows 7 x64


On 2/28/2019 1:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
This is all more or less moot as soon as OpenSSH 8.0 comes out, which
will contain patches to handle user and group names case-insensitive,
finally.

Please forgive my ignorance of cygwin's internals, but why does cygwin1.dll need to do anything on the network or enumerate the groups in LDAP/AD or whatever even when doing something as mundane as 'grep -V'? I'm just wondering if there's a better way to hold off on that until it's really needed.

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