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Date:      Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:22:25 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 230491] stat(1): Improve performance with getpwuid() and getgrgid() caching
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Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> ---
Patch looks functionally ok to me (works because stat is a single-threaded
program); has some style issues.

It's unclear to me if we want to add caching to every individual tool acces=
sing
these databases, or if the caching should just happen in libc.

One other concern that the thought of caching in libc raises is: how do we
handle cache invalidation?  Obviously we don't care if a user/group change
races a running but ultimately bounded program like stat(1) across many fil=
es,
but we probably do care if a daemon never sees renamed or numbered ids.

Btw, it seems such caching is already implemented in libc via the NS_CACHING
option.

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