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From: e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: reducing the delay between edrgy and getpwuid() etc ...
Message-ID: <1157@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 23 Feb 91 22:20:20 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.211014.5823@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <4ff2e1af.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
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In article <4ff2e1af.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, pato@apollo.HP.COM (Joe Pato) writes:
> appropriate entry).  If you find that you need to use getpwent
> you will observe much better performance if you first call:
> 	setpwfile("/etc//passwd");

This indeed gives a VERY substantial performance increase.
You certainly want to include this line in your favourite version
of the finger program and the like. However:
a. As Joe Pato outlined, in SR10.2 and before this way of reading
   the passwd file may not reflect the most up-to-date status of
   the registry database.
b. You may want to filter out entries for names that appear in the
   'person' database, but for which there is not an actual account.
   Such entries show up with a password field of '*NOACCT*', a home
   directory of '/homeless', and a gid of '2' (sic!).

Eric Wassenaar
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