From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: "Once-a-day" long delay before startup
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:36:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110819083624.GD1685@prunille.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <110818205236.ZM20722@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 2011-08-18 20:52:36 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> The getent call is used to read the system's groups database for the
> groups of your login user, so that the shell can then check whether
> other persons in that group might have write access to your fpath.
> (There is an assumption that getent is in /usr/bin, so if it's not
> there the check relies on the local /etc/group file.)
>
> If you're in an environment (such as, say, a university or a large
> corporation) where the groups database is networked and may contain
> hundreds or even thousands of entries, that "getent" call can take a
> very long time.
That can be annoying. But I don't really understand. What if none
of the concerned directories are group-writable? I suppose that
getent should be useless. Why not calling it only when needed?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-19 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-14 14:57 gi1242+zsh
2011-08-14 15:36 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-14 17:32 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-14 18:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-18 22:08 ` Piotr Karbowski
2011-08-19 2:03 ` gi1242+zsh
2011-08-19 4:05 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-19 9:08 ` Vincent Lefevre
2011-08-19 17:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-20 0:47 ` gi1242+zsh
2011-08-20 7:01 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-19 3:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-08-19 8:36 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2011-08-19 9:05 ` Piotr Karbowski
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