[ Please don't Cc: public replies to me. ] (The topic is using database versions of /etc/passwd and friends, to speed up read access. Changes would be made to /etc/passwd, or whatever, and the databases would be re-genereated from them.) Craig Sanders: > the only thing i have against this idea is that it takes a long time to > generate the db files. Surely it should be possible to implement things so that the database files do not have to be re-generated completely every time? I can't imagine that changing a single datum in any reasonable database format would take more than a fraction of a second. Of course, being busy with doing Unnecessary Mail User Agent Programming, I haven't even looked at how the current implementation is done, but I do know such techniques are used at big installations running commercial Unices.
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