From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Cc: Eric Hendrickson <edh@lenti.med.umn.edu>,
Danny Siu <dsiu@mv.us.adobe.com>,
ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Is Username Expansion possible in GNUS?
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 21:06:38 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199606151906.VAA00907@gandalf.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2hgsdhme6.fsf@atreides.erehwon.org>
Sudish Joseph <sudish@mindspring.com> writes:
>Eric Hendrickson <edh@lenti.med.umn.edu> writes:
>> do this anyway). It might be slow if the passwd file is big, though on the
>> machines where I've seen Pine do this, it is very quick and the passwd file
>> has about 40000 (yes, 40k) entries....
>
> You don't need to parse the whole file yourself, a getpwnam() call is
> all that's needed. (...) A subprocess running
> egrep seems the best bet, if you -really- want to do this. :-)
If you make a subprocess, it can just as well be written to do
getpwnam() directly.
Regards,
Hallvard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-15 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-13 21:47 Danny Siu
1996-06-14 0:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-14 22:36 ` Danny Siu
1996-06-14 23:02 ` Eric Hendrickson
1996-06-15 1:44 ` Sudish Joseph
1996-06-15 19:06 ` Hallvard B Furuseth [this message]
1996-06-15 1:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-16 21:27 ` Mark Eichin
1996-06-17 2:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-17 18:21 ` Edward J. Sabol
1996-06-18 2:38 ` Sudish Joseph
1996-06-18 16:33 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-06-18 16:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-06-18 17:15 ` Hallvard B Furuseth
1996-06-14 13:08 ` David Worenklein
1996-06-14 15:45 ` Kai Grossjohann
1996-06-17 5:30 ` Mark Breslauer
1996-06-17 14:23 ` BBDB and Gnus 5.2 Jack Vinson
1996-06-17 16:14 ` Is Username Expansion possible in GNUS? Kai Grossjohann
1996-06-18 14:55 ` Hans de Graaff
1996-06-18 15:57 ` Jack Vinson
1996-06-25 17:11 ` Brian Edmonds
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