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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:23:19 +0200
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Subject: Re: Getting Windows "MACHINE SID" without fork() & exec()?
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From: Takeshi Nishimura via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 7:14 PM William Stewart via Cygwin
<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 11:08 AM Takeshi Nishimura wrote:
>
> Does Cygwin have a secret shell variable or /proc file which contains
> > the current machine's MACHINE SID, without having to resort to calling
> > an external program (no fork(), no exec(), please)?
>
>
> I'm not aware of one. What problem are you solving?

Pass MACHINE SID around in a shell script. Doing that by calling
powershell each time is very expensive, around 92% of the scripts
whole runtime
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Takeshi Nishimura <takeshi DOT nishimura DOT linux AT gmail DOT com>

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