From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11076 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2014 20:25:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11065 invoked by uid 89); 7 Feb 2014 20:25:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:25:26 +0000 Received: (qmail 5722 invoked by uid 13447); 7 Feb 2014 20:25:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([68.35.121.157]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Feb 2014 20:25:22 -0000 Message-ID: <52F54133.4050701@etr-usa.com> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:25:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?) References: <52F339CA.5070305@gmail.com> <20140206090117.GD2821@calimero.vinschen.de> <52F361C5.3000807@gmail.com> <20140206141321.GI2821@calimero.vinschen.de> <52F40208.5030901@etr-usa.com> <20140207094917.GN2821@calimero.vinschen.de> <52F53D7C.5050201@etr-usa.com> In-Reply-To: <52F53D7C.5050201@etr-usa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00148.txt.bz2 On 2/7/2014 13:09, Warren Young wrote: > > I want getpwent() and friends to remain available, but to switch to > AD/SAM as primary, like OS X does all the time, I just realized that this means getpwent() turns into an AD database linear scan at AD sites. Hmmm... I think I'm still in favor of the idea. It seems like a "Doctor, it hurts when I do a complete linear AD scan!" issue. ("So don't do that, then!") This could make Cygwin a positive force for getting these old programs updated to use modern APIs. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple