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From: "Vishal Jain" <vxj45 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: /etc/passwd dependency of cygwin
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:21:40 -0800
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Hi,
How does cygwin library depend on uid's and gid's in /etc/passwd?
If I replace it with my custom /etc/passwd file and replace cygwin's 
seteuid/geteuid calls with custom implementation, will my application work?
How does cygwin internally uses uid's and gid's?
thanks,
Vishal


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