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Subject: Re: "id -Gn" w/ username doesn't return all associated groups.  Issue with getgrent()?
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On Jan 22 15:18, Mark A. Ziesemer wrote:
> Since Cygwin already lets the underlying OS take care of much of the
> security (handling passwords, etc.), can't Cygwin just ask Windows for the
> user's groups when needed, to?

How?  Consider that getgrent just enumerates /etc/group.  It doesn't
know for what purpose the calling application does it.  I don't think it
makes a lot of sense to call a OS function for each getgrent call to
fill out the gr_mem field on the fly.

Having said that, I don't intend to change this behaviour myself.
However, I'm certainly not averse to patches to Cygwin which add this
behaviour, as long as it's not getting too slow by this.


Corinna


P.S.: How did the subject disappear?!?


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