Win32 port

[Ross Burton]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 16:17 +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > Maybe dbus could "borrow" some of its windows security support from
> > > cygwin
> >
> >Except that Cygwin is GPL while DBUS (at least last time I looked) is
> >dual-licensed under the "Academic Free License" and GPL. You can't
> >copy code from Cygwin.
> 
> No, but you can copy the concept.

The concept (iirc) is that under the cygwin "root" there is /etc/passwd
and /etc/group, which has Window SIDs in the GECOS fields.  This is used
to map from SIDs to UID/GIDs.  Now considering a native Windows DBus
wont be using /etc/passwd, this is not useful.

Ross
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