[ On Monday, August 13, 2001 at 12:52:44 (+0800), David Xu wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb - 29,000 users in 7 Seconds.
>
> I heard /etc/passwd and /etc/group is no longer part of POSIX. The
> system database is accessed with library functions such as getpwnam().

POSIX does not fully and completely define very many production systems!

> Is it possible to implement passwd and group in full database based?

Not for many purposes, no.

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