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* ntsec.xml: More language fixes.

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2014-10-27 Luke Kendall <luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au>
Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* ntsec.xml: More language fixes.
2014-10-27 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* new-features.xml (ov-new1.7.33): Document empty $PATH handling.

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@ -528,8 +528,8 @@ Local accounts from another machine in the network:
<para>
There's no SID&lt;=&gt;uid/gid mapping implemented for this case. The problem
is, there's no way to generate a bijective mapping. There's no central place
which keeps an analogue value of the <literal>trustPosixOffset</literal>, and
there's the additional problem that the
which keeps an analogue of the <literal>trustPosixOffset</literal>, and there's
the additional problem that the
<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379166%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">LookupAccountSid</ulink>
and
<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379159%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">LookupAccountName</ulink>
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<sect3 id="ntsec-mapping-caching"><title id="ntsec-mapping-caching.title">Caching account information</title>
<para>
The information fetched from file or the Windows account database is cached
by the process. The cached information is inherited by child processes.
The information fetched from the Windows account database or the
<filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and <filename>/etc/group</filename> files is
cached by the process. The cached information is inherited by Cygwin child
processes. A Cygwin process invoked from a Windows command, such as CMD.exe,
will start a new Cygwin process tree and the caching starts from scratch
(unless <command><link linkend="using-cygserver">cygserver</link></command> is
running, but read on).
</para>
<para>
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<para>
But there's another caching mechanism available. If
<command><link linkend="using-cygserver">cygserver</link></command> is running
it will provide passwd and group entry caching for all processes in a Cygwin
process tree, which first process has been started after
it will provide passwd and group entry caching for all processes in every Cygwin
process tree started after
<command><link linkend="using-cygserver">cygserver</link></command>. So, if
you start a Cygwin Terminal and
<command><link linkend="using-cygserver">cygserver</link></command> is running