[RFA] A kinder, gentler check for /etc/{passwd,group} changes

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:43:20PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Faylor [ mailto:cgf@redhat.com ]
>> Anyway, I'm not arguing against finer grained /etc/passwd checking, as
>> you noted, and Corinna has already implemented it, so...
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>I'd just like to say to you and Corinna - Woohoo! those timings look
>nice.

Actually, now that I think of it, they should be faster.  When I was benchmarking
vfork, I was seeing something like 10-20% improvements over 1.3.2.

I'm not going to worry about that yet.
 
>> Cygwin has to be able to work like it does now without the daemon.  I
>> think that is what Corinna was saying.
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>In other words we don't move anything that works today into the daemon,
>without keeping a non-daemon option.
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>Hmm, lets see how that goes :]. I suspect we'll end up with a
>frustatingly long list of "Gee it would be nice to x, but that currently
>works without the daemon".

I still think that it might be possible to have a "works better with daemon"
"works ok without daemon" scenario, somehow.

I'm just not sure how, yet.

cgf