[Mono-osx] Active Directory Infinite Loop

[Daniel Abrams]

uid=435092441
gid=1309106314

On 4/4/07, Eoin Norris <e.norris at mac.com> wrote:
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> If you are running on an active directory account what is your gid and uid
> - the result of ( as you prob. know) typing id in the terminal?
> -- Eoin
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> On 4 Apr 2007, at 15:57, Daniel Abrams wrote:
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> On 4/4/07, Eoin Norris <e.norris at mac.com> wrote:
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> > Well, my application is generally home-based but I would kinda think
> > 15% of all users high, though it may be 15% of all macs deployed
> > across  "schools, colleges, companies, government" but whatever about
> > schools macs in the enterprise are extremely rare. So the total of
> > all macs is lower.
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> Perhaps.  I worked for Apple in what was the Enterprise and Education
> divisions, and I think my numbers are pretty conservative, but maybe the
> ratio has shrunk.  I can tell you that one of my current clients is a large
> government agency, and macs are not as rare as you might think, and they all
> use active directory authentication.
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> > It is an issue for deployment as well. I am getting reports in the
> > field. I dont know specifically where to look in the Mono code
> > ( where it is happening) but the thread below ( taken from this list)
> > gives some examples. The original poster does not seem to be on the
> > list anymore, or not contributing to this new thread on the same
> > issue, but might be available on that email address.
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> > http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-osx/2006-January/000444.html
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> > He clearly did some research and ascertained that it was an Apple bug.
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> I can't say if its an Apple bug or not.  I could certainly believe that
> POSIX threads are done differently in Mac OS X than in Linux, and that the
> Apple implementation is incomplete or buggy, I don't have much experience in
> that area.  But I do know that in higher level environments, Java, ObjC,
> etc, thread and process management work fine on OS X and that many other
> development and deployment environments have managed to solve threading
> issues without dying early on Mac OS X.  Unless it's solved, it effectively
> rules out Mono development for us, but I understand that your mileage may
> vary.
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