From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: getpwuid
6 May 1997 02:00:32 -0700
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Gunther Ebert wrote:
> environment. Note that every fstat call results in a call to several pwd
> functions, and
> using native APIs instead of /etc/passwd file operations would slow down
> file operations
> dramatically.
>

Hopefully, You are not right. Fstat calls does not requires acces to user's 
database, because all neccessary information (uid and gid) is contained in 
file's security descriptor.

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Sergey Okhapkin
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