Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

[Warren Young]

On Feb 13, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com> wrote:

> If we save only 1/20 second (say 0.1 sec down to 0.05) per process launch, we can save tens of seconds on such a command sequence.
> 
> I look forward to testing this.

I decided to build R, since it’s big but fairly self-contained:

With a 4-processor XP VM, I can’t tell the difference between 1.7.28-2 and 1.7.29s (20140213) in terms of build time.  +/- a second or two over about 4.3 CPU-minutes of build time.  Configure time doesn’t change much, either.

My nsswitch.conf:

passwd: db
group:  db

I’ve tried it with /etc/files present and removed.

Waah.
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