On 02/11/2014 05:06 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 2/11/2014 16:25, David Stacey wrote: >> getpwent() is called in three different places. > > To those of you who have investigated these code paths: do any of them > look like they couldn't be replaced by getpwnam() or other calls that > would let cygwin1.dll do single-record AD/SAM lookups, rather than > whole-table/tree scans? > > That is, do any of these programs really need to visit every record in > /etc/passwd?
libreadline wants to know how to tab-complete ~foo; to do that, it has to find all usernames beginning with foo. How would you do that without visiting every single record? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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