Subject: Re: CVS commit: src (identd -L)
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 05/18/1999 18:20:04
Jim Wise wrote:

> - -F is really meant to provide reformatted information.  When using -o
> - -F"string", identd still hits kvm and grovels around for the information
> which might be returned.  -L is a fastpath to respond with a static
> string and get out, without even doing kvm_open().

Ah, OK.

-- 
Christoph Badura					www.netbsd.org

	Anything that can be done in O(N) can be done in O(N^2).
	-- Ralf Schuettau (after looking at a particular piece of code)