Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > Either way, implementing a full getpwent requires to return the local > users, the users of the primary domain, and the users of all trusted > domains. I know of domains with 200K users and there are probably > bigger ones. How long should a search take when a user presses <TAB> > after the ~? And then, shall the process running the getpwent actually > cache all of them? This seems really excessive.
IMO, such practice should be actually discouraged. I mean, listing ALL users of ALL... well, you got it. For the reasons you mentioned above - the possible results of such operation are largely unpredictable. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 12.02.2014, <15:49> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
