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Date:	Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:48:58 -0500
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From:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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At 07:01 PM 1/1/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Oops.  You're right.  So, the only potential problem is that the getpw
>routines aren't thread safe.  There is a window during the passwd info
>resides in a static structure.

You are right, the routines are not thread safe. However everything
should be fine unless passwd or group are changed while a program is
running. That's probably not the case here.

Pierre

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