I see the practicality of deprecating the get*ent() routines, but I still
think that it would be something of a loss, especially to people who wish
to complete ambiguities (a la csh's filec or tcsh).

Of course, the first time I implemented autohosting into tcsh (i.e. you
just muttered "hostname [args]..." and if the hostname wasn't present
as a command, it was the same as "rsh hostname [args]..."), and tried to
enable hostname completion as part of command completion, performance went
through the floor, so I pulled it out...

(Actually I don't use the getpwent() searches any more since, as a sysadmin,
 I know all the users anyway :-)... so it's no nevermind to me, but still...)


				--*greywolf;
--
Thanks to the fact that the SysV camp couldn't accept that BSD was better
written and gave better performance and utilisation of resources, we now have
a new OS to contend with:  Windoze N(o)T.  If the UNIX world had adopted a
fully configurable *optional* GUI atop a BSD-based OS sooner, this wouldn't
have happened.  TO ANY WOULD-BE SYSADMIN:  Reconsider your choice of career.
Windows?  No Thanks.