Subject: Re: lib/20145: Hesiod getgrid() should use Hesiod "gid" map
To: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
From: None <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/02/2003 22:07:59
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:49:57PM -0500, Roland Dowdeswell wrote:
> There's a lot of other incompatibilities lying around too.  The
> Ultrix Hesiod I think was an outgrowth of DCE wasn't it?  But, for
> another example, take the grplist that we completely ignore.  And
> there are the iterated versions of the map with I think that MIT's
> version never had.  We should probably go through and change the
> code to try grplist first and iterate second, etc, etc.

Dude. 

I've got a two-user network here at home. For fun, I'm using Hesiod.
My name server gets roughly 360,000 hits a day just from my own
handful of machines servicing me and roughly one other person.

That's crazy. Let's hear it for grplist. 
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

"What is mathematics? The age-old answer is, of course, that mathematics
 is what mathematicians do." - Donald Knuth