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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:01:40 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ntsec patch #4: passwd and group
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:47:20PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I don't think it makes sense to use a sophisticated mutex thingy for
> reading passwd/group info.  See below.

Oops, I forgot the "below".  Actually, the problem might be a problem
only in multi-threaded apps.  Our server processes typically aren't.
And if the application is multi-threaded, it must additionally read
passwd/group from multiple threads.  That's pretty much unlikely.
So a simple mutex should be enough, IMHO.

Corinna

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