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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:30:36 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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To: Jacob Kitzman <kitz AT MIT DOT EDU>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: group name problem
References: <200410011856 DOT i91IuuNn003069 AT manawatu-mail-centre DOT mit DOT edu>
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Jacob Kitzman wrote:
> 
> Pierre,
> 
> I noticed that the output differs between running just "id" and "strace -o
> trace.txt id":
> 
> dnr AT walz-bemaster ~
> $ id
> uid=1004(dnr) gid=1006(mkgroup) groups=1006(mkgroup)
> 
> dnr AT walz-bemaster ~
> $ strace -o trace.txt id
> uid=400(dnr) gid=401(mkpasswd) groups=401(mkpasswd)
> 
> I've attached trace.txt.
> 
> Thanks a lot for looking for this!

It looks like you cannot get volume information about C:\
Consequently the file is not marked as a disk file and
the pwdgrp loading function does not try to read it.

Pierre

   86   16350 [main] id 1684 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path /etc/passwd, dst C:\cygwin\etc\passwd, flags 0x2000008, rc 0
  174   16524 [main] id 1684 symlink_info::check: not a symlink
  111   16635 [main] id 1684 symlink_info::check: 0 = symlink.check (C:\cygwin\etc\passwd, 0x22E978) (0x2000008)
  217   16852 [main] id 1684 fs_info::update: Cannot get volume information (C:\), Win32 error 5

~> net helpmsg 5
Access is denied.

  354   17206 [main] id 1684 etc::test_file_change: FindFirstFile succeeded
  296   17502 [main] id 1684 etc::test_file_change: fn[1] C:\cygwin\etc\passwd res 1
  108   17610 [main] id 1684 etc::init: fn[1] C:\cygwin\etc\passwd, curr_ix 1
   71   17681 [main] id 1684 pwdgrp::load: /etc/passwd
   67   17748 [main] id 1684 pwdgrp::load: strange path_conv problem
   67   17815 [main] id 1684 pwdgrp::load: /etc/passwd load failed

   69   18829 [main] id 1684 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path: src_path /etc/group, dst C:\cygwin\etc\group, flags 0x2000008, rc 0
  169   18998 [main] id 1684 symlink_info::check: not a symlink
  108   19106 [main] id 1684 symlink_info::check: 0 = symlink.check (C:\cygwin\etc\group, 0x22E938) (0x2000008)
  228   19334 [main] id 1684 fs_info::update: Cannot get volume information (C:\), Win32 error 5
  333   19667 [main] id 1684 etc::test_file_change: FindFirstFile succeeded
  123   19790 [main] id 1684 etc::test_file_change: fn[2] C:\cygwin\etc\group res 1
   70   19860 [main] id 1684 etc::init: fn[2] C:\cygwin\etc\group, curr_ix 2
   66   19926 [main] id 1684 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group
   67   19993 [main] id 1684 pwdgrp::load: strange path_conv problem
   65   20058 [main] id 1684 pwdgrp::load: /etc/group load failed

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