[PATCH]: Check modification time on /etc/passwd and /etc/group

[Earnie Boyd]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:29:54PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > So, is it worthwhile to make this change?  We might be adding some overhead
> > for an infrequent case.
> 
> Hmm, that's a good question. I would like to see that handled
> correctly w/o having to stop and start my services again. And
> it's actually no infrequent case for sysadmins to add users.
> 

Robert Collins had some interesting questions on this subject in this
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2001-04/msg00071.html post.

And http://www.sxlist.com/techref/os/win/api/win32/func/src/f24_9.htm is
Win32 API documentation for FindFirstChangeNotification.

Earnie.

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