Re: get rid of getpwent? (Was: cygwin-1.7.28 getpwent header declaration changes ?)

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

On Feb  9 08:45, Warren Young wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> 
> > Here's a better check that doesn't give false positives:
> > 
> >    $ cat <<END > checkfile
> >    #!/bin/sh
> >    if egrep -q '_getgrent(32|64)' "$1" ; then echo $1 ; fi
> >    END
> >    $ find /bin -name \*.exe -exec ./checkfile {} \;
> 
> The strings(1) call got left out of that test.  Hereâs a working variant, which tests for getpwent() calls instead:
> 
>     $ cat <<END > checkfile
>     if strings "$1" | egrep -q '^getpwent$' ; then echo $1 ; fi
>     END
>     $ find /bin -name \*.exe -exec sh checkfile {} \;
> 
> Alas, Vim *does* call this API.  Results:

It does so to evaluate a ~user in a path and I guess that's what other
apps do as well.  This is kind of weird since it would obviously not be
necessary to enumerate accounts for this functionality:

  if (~ in path)
    if (~ is solo)
      getpwuid(getuid ())
    else
      getpwname (username after the ~);


Corinna

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