2014-03-03 10:21 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > No, this is not mintty's fault. You have to understand that the > request for information from the DC is called before the actual > application had any chance to initialize, This happens before > the application has, in fact, been called from the Cygwin DLL.
Understood. > Therefore, if the three seconds are a burden, there are three choices > going forward: > > - We reduce the timeout to 1 second in general, which could be a problem > when utilizing a slow VPN conncetion to the DC, > > - We allow the user to specify a timeout value and set the default to > 1 second. > > - We stick to the 3 seconds and users should switch to files (/etc/passwd > /etc/group) when being offline from their DC. > > I'm really not sure what the best way is, I guess we as a community have > to dice this out somehow. I think the second one makes most sense. Maybe even keep the default timeout on 3 seconds. When the user can change the value, it is up to them to play with it and figure out what works best for them. I personally would try to set it to 1 second, since I almost never have a slow VPN. Regards, Frank -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple