[34] in Hesiod
Re: getpwent, getgrent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (treese@crl.dec.com)
Sat Sep 29 00:44:51 1990
To: Greg Wohletz <greg%duke.cs.unlv.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Cc: hesiod@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 25 Sep 90 21:21:06 -0700.
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 90 00:36:46 EDT
From: treese@crl.dec.com
In the ULTRIX implementation of Hesiod, get*ent are implemented
by putting special tags in the zone file as CNAME entries for
the real entries. So passwd-1 (say) is a CNAME for the first
passwd entry, and so on. Then getpwent simply retrieves the
entries until it can't get any more.
This is probably easier to implement, but it does have different
tradeoffs.
Win Treese Cambridge Research Lab
treese@crl.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp.
