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Re: get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?)


On 2/7/2014 06:53, David Stacey wrote:
On 07/02/2014 09:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb  6 14:43, Warren Young wrote:
I know a guy who currently has all of
Cygwin downloaded and ready to re-install, to test this.:)
Try this:  strings -f/bin/*.exe/bin/*.dll | grep getgrent

Let me save you the trouble of reinstalling it

Thank you!

> Results attached.

The cppcheck, cygqscintilla*.dll and nedit results are bogus. (i.e. They contain these strings for other reasons.) Here's a better check that doesn't give false positives:

    $ cat <<END > checkfile
    #!/bin/sh
    if egrep -q '_getgrent(32|64)' "$1" ; then echo $1 ; fi
    END
    $ find /bin -name \*.exe -exec ./checkfile {} \;

cygperl*.dll includes the functions only because it wraps them. I assume Perl's configuration script is smart enough to cope if they're missing.

I assume the shells (bash, mc, and tcsh) also have alternate code paths for systems where these functions don't exist.

ytree's use of these functions is obvious. I don't know that I'd bet on it having an alternate code path, though.

I have no guess why socat needs these functions, but given that it was recently updated, I will guess the socat devs aren't interested in moving to more modern APIs. Programs like this, where user management isn't any kind of real focus, are where you expect to find old, easy APIs used in preference to more modern, more complicated APIs.

cygwin1.dll is obvious. :)

Emacs...why am I not surprised that it uses these old functions?

Vim does not, therefore Vim is the superior text editor.  (I kid.)


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