Re: 2x file listings, comments

David Fries <[email protected]> wrote:

> I started coding up the user and group as a cache system, but if I did
> complete it that way I didn't keep that version.  I figured it would
> be better to parse /etc/passwd once rather than a bunch of times, and

I might be out of context, but why are *you* _parsing_ /etc/passwd?
What do you do, if users aren't in /etc/passwd, but in some other
database (NIS, LDAP, ...)? Are you using getpwent() functions?

Alexander Skwar


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