Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 19 12:01, J.H. vd Water wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> (Sorry, have't found time to properly subscribe to the list, yet)
> 
> >> Both cases show the same output:
> >>
> >> $ ./lsa
> >> pdom name: <WORKGROUP> dnsname: <(null)>, sid: 0x0
> >> adom name: <XP> sid: 0x246058
> 
> I "lied" here :-) The non-admin case showed: ... sid: 0x246060
> (So, almost the same)
> 
> >Huh.  This looks entirely normal and expected.  Which makes the
> >SEGV even more weird.  I'm apparently missing something here.
> >
> >> Perhaps, it is best to stop here for the moment ... There must be more pressing
> >> things on your list.
> >
> >No, there aren't.  This testing is very important.  I'd like to
> >have such crashes like yours fixed before this new code gets
> >released.
> 
> >> Moreover, I already decided to use 'db_enum: files' in /etc/nssswitch.conf (and
> >> XP is a thing of the past, is it not?).
> 
> But who will still be using XP within a company after after april 2014?'. So, does
> have XP priority? Your decision, of course ...
> 
> >I'm going to make some tests on XP, but if I can't track this down,
> >would you mind if I send you a test Cygwin DLL with extended debug
> >output to help tracking it down?
> 
> The best thing to do, I believe, if you want to fix 'XP' (my machine may turn out
> to be a "misfit").
> 
> However, I have started afresh with the 18/2 snapshot ...
> 
> Same result: getpwent crashed (db_enum: local) ... getgrent is ok.
> 
> Send me a cygwin1.dll? Ok, if you tell me how to handle the thing (i.e. include
> some pointers to documents that I must read in order to be able to get results).

Can you please just test the today's snapshot which should show up
soon on the http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ page.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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