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Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: getpwent bug?
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On 07/16/10 08:36, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> Jens Rehsack writes:
>> 2010/7/16 Dan Nelson<dnelson@allantgroup.com>:
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> [...]
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>>> Try the following patch:
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> Thanks, I'll try it when I'm on my FreeBSD box.

Great \o/

[...]

>> I had to develop a workaround for all other boxes anyway.
>
> As a workaround you can use setpwent(3).

I cached the entires - I rate setpwent as to dangerous.
You can take a look at
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/REHSACK/DBD-Sys-0.01_01/lib/DBD/Sys/Plugin/Unix/Users.pm

Jens