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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:48:55 -0400
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: Slowdown
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At 04:51 PM 6/29/2002 -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Probably, depending on the affects.  I never run mkpasswd, and if it's run by
>default I always rm /etc/passwd /etc/group.  I'm always using the emulated
>passwd code.  

That's another story, not covered by the current discussion. When
there is no /etc/passwd, internal_getlogin sees the emulated passwd,
with a home field. That field is initialized from HOME if present,
else it defaults to / .
One could argue that it should consider HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH as well
on NT/2000/XP, but that would change the behavior and why change it
if users are happy?

Pierre