[33] in Hesiod
getpwent, getgrent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Wohletz)
Wed Sep 26 02:55:41 1990
To: hesiod@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 21:21:06 -0700
From: Greg Wohletz <greg%duke.cs.unlv.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
While versions of getpwnam, getpwuid, etc. are simple to implement,
the password and group routines which retrieve succesive entries pose
some problems. What I'd like to see is a way to call hesiod_resolve
such that it initiats a zone transfer. Say something like:
cpp = hesiod_resolve("*", "passwd");
to get all of the password entries.
I'm not familiar enough with the resolver code at this point to implement
such a thing, but I'm sure that someone on this list has already thought
of this situation and knows how it should be done. And if not, I guess
it's time for me to start becoming familiar...
--Greg
