[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.3

Mon Feb 23 12:08:00 GMT 2015

On Feb 21 12:25, cyg Simple wrote:
> > From: Corinna Vinschen
> > 
> > Maybe it is actually simpler than that. Invalidating the cache as a whole
> > probably never makes sense. In fact there are two reasons for
> > invalidation:
> > 
> > - The pw_name, pw_shell, pw_home, pw_gecos settings for a user changed.
> > 
>> How is pw_name going to change without a logoff?

You're looking at the current user only. I'm talking about creating
arbitrary passwd entries.
> > - The interface to the DC was broken and there are entries of the type
> > Achim mentioned, "DOM+User(RID)".
> > 
> > The first case can only be fixed by invalidating the cache on a regular basis. If
> > we didn't fetch the info for a user for, say, 5 minutes, drop the entry from the
> > cache and renew the information by asking the DC again.
> > 
>> Maybe too many requests to the DC for all users? Couldn't you just
> reinitialize if the network data changes? There are times when I
> would be on the DC and times when I am not with the same account.

Doesn't matter, we're not invalidating the cache yet anyway. It was
just idle musing.
Corinna
-- 
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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