Thanks Greg, I guess I should look more carefully at the man pages next
time.  :)

Rick

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Greg Oster wrote:

> 
> Hi
> 
> rickb@iaw.on.ca writes:
> > Hi...
> > I found out (the hard way) that the getpwent set of functions return a
> > pointer to a static structure (as opposed to one that has been freshly
> > allocated).  Is this a good idea?  Shouldn't it atleast be mentioned in
> > the man pages? 
> 
> This is from a -current manpage for getpwent/3:
> 
> BUGS
>      The functions getpwent(), getpwnam(), and getpwuid(), leave their results
>      in an internal static object and return a pointer to that object. Subse-
>      quent calls to the same function will modify the same object.
> 
> Obviously the author of the above agrees with you :-) 
> 
> Later...
> 
> Greg Oster
> 
> oster@cs.usask.ca
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA
> 
> 

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