[18534] in Athena Bugs
sgi 8.4.17: getpwuid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nickolai Zeldovich)
Wed Nov 22 11:14:13 2000
Message-Id: <200011221614.LAA49103@m4-035-9.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:14:03 -0500
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>
System name: m4-035-9.mit.edu
Type and version: IP32 8.4.17
Display type: CRM
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: ctwm -s
What were you trying to do?
Run "ls -l" in an AFS directory with a considerable number
of files owned by uid's not in the local /etc/passwd.
What's wrong:
The IRIX getpwuid() appears to do an intentional 100ms
sleep inside every getpwuid call (and probably others)
if it does a lookup via /ns/.local/passwd.byuid and gets
EIO.
What should have happened:
getpwuid() shouldn't take 100ms for every lookup of a
non-existant (locally) uid. Probably nsd shouldn't be
returning EIO on what seems like every other lookup for
a non-existant uid, either.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
getpwuid(3C), nsd(1M)
