Reorganizing internal_getlogin() patch is in

Jacek Trzcinski jacek@certum.pl
Mon Jun 17 05:00:00 GMT 2002


Hello Corinna !
About one Year ago I created patch to serial device which was serving
ioctl function enabling setting RTS and DTR lines and reading CTS and
DSR lines. As I remember our last discussion one thing left - copyright
assignment. I had agreement of my boss but I was "too lazy" to post it.
Other matter is that recently I use Cygwin relatively rarely so I had no
motivation to do it.
Recently I have got few e-mails fom Cygwin list what is on with the
patch. I wonder If You are still interested in the patch . If so I can
immediately post copyright assignment. In this case remind me please
where can I find correct form sheets for such assignment.

Best regards
Jacek

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 01:15:06AM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 12:07:01AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > >b) NetUserGetInfo() must always be called with the env_logsrv, otherwise
> > >name aliasing can occur. Don't call if env_logsrv is NULL, which should
> > >be the case only for SYSTEM.
> >
> > I seem to recall that Corinna added this code for a reason.
> 
> The original reason was to speed up things in domain environments.
> The local machine has buffered the user information so it's called
> first.  Only if that fails we fallback to calling the logon server
> (a PDC probably).  This should avoid unnecessary net access.
> 
> I'm curious, too, what you mean by "name aliasing".  Are you talking
> about having a local and a domain user of the same name?
> 
> > >c) get_logon_server() will fail for SYSTEM. There should be a test
> > >"if (strcasematch (Windowname (), "SYSTEM"))" before calling it as it
> > >will looked up repeatedly if plogsrv remains NULL.
> 
> That test is ok.
> 
> Corinna



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