Luke Mewburn writes:
> The entire backend to grscan() needs rewriting to take advantage of
> yp_match on bygid/byname.
> 
> And what do you know, as part of my nsswitch implementation, I've
> done that!  I'll have beta code for nsswitch available after 1.1
> is released and I've merged my changes relative to that. And for those
> who *don't* like nsswitch (you luddites! :), you can just have
> "group: compat" and get the behaviour you want (but much faster due to
> the reworked grscan())

Grins anxiously waiting for this implementation.. 8)

> > You won't notice much of a slow down until you start using a large YP group
> > file. 1000 lines of data retransmitted for every file is a lot of extra
> > overhead that can and needs to be avoided.
> 
> Funnily enough, I don't use yp for groups or passwd, just netgroups.
> On our ULTRIX boxen we use Hesiod for passwd/group. It has 1K limits
> on a single record, but at least you don't break on DBM limitations.

I was trying to say that with a 1000 line YP group file it adds to much
overhead when trying to do a "ls -l" in any directory.

Ron

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