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RE: getpwuid
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'gunther dot ebert at ixos-leipzig dot de'" <gunther dot ebert at ixos-leipzig dot de>
- Subject: RE: getpwuid
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 11:52:27 +0400
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Gunther Ebert wrote:
> environment. Note that every fstat call results in a call to several pwd
> functions, and
> using native APIs instead of /etc/passwd file operations would slow down
> file operations
> dramatically.
>
Hopefully, You are not right. Fstat calls does not requires acces to user's
database, because all neccessary information (uid and gid) is contained in
file's security descriptor.
--
Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia
Looking for a job.
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