Re: uw-imap-imapd: suggestions for cyg_server issue

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 13 11:11, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> On 12/02/2010 11:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Alternatively:
> >
> >   getgroups();
> >   for all gids
> >     gr = getgrgid();
> >     if (!strcasecmp (gr->gr_passwd, "S-1-32-544"))
> >       return is_admin;
> >   return non_admin;
> 
> Doh! Why didn't I think of that. That would of course be easier. Does
> the underlying implementation of getgrgid() scan through
> /etc/group. If not, then this would also have been quicker.

/etc/group is scanned only once.  After that, any read is done in
memory (unless the file itself is updated).


Corinna

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