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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
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Subject: sorted /etc/passwd?
Message-ID: <330@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 02:20:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 02:20:35 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Jan-85 02:59:25 EST
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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I have just added over 1000 accounts for our students, and we
now have 1526 entries in our /etc/passwd, on a Perkin-Elmer 3220
running v7. Should I consider sorting them and using a binary
search? Does anyone have versions of getpw{nam,ent,uid} and anything
else which would need changing, to implement a binary search?
(We have a source license.)

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
(416) 947-3466
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