timeout in LDAP access
Denis Excoffier
cygwin@Denis-Excoffier.org
Mon Jul 28 18:51:00 GMT 2014
On 2014-07-28 11:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Ping?
>
> On Jul 18 21:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>> We really should do that to avoid collisions with system accounts, IMHO.
>>
>> But maybe we should handle it as a border case of a border case, and
>> reliably. Rather than using the default fake mechanism, what if
>> we use default offsets for the two cases:
>>
>> Case 1: posix offset is < 0x100000 ==> Enforce posix 0ffset 0xfe80000
>> Case 2: posix offset can't be fetched (this points to a local user
>> having no access to this kind of domain information)
>> ==> Enforce posix offset 0xfe000000.
>>
>> This would result in potential collisions in very rare border cases,
>> but it would result in reliable mappings throught all processes.
>> And, the complexity would be quite small.
>
> any feedback on this one? Shall I create a snapshot with a matching
> patch?
I have nothing to add except that i am a great fan of cygwin snapshots in
general, and i suppose that if several posix offsets are set to 0, it is
a minor problem if all of them get replaced by the same 0xfe80000.
Regards,
Denis Excoffier.
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