Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The > Daniel> problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* > Daniel> functions. Whenever these functions are called (and > Daniel> assigned to a variable; if you just call them and discard > Daniel> the value immediately this doesn't happen), perl attempts > Daniel> to look up the shadow password entry associated with the > Daniel> given struct passwd *, and this takes a while - especially > Daniel> since the /etc/shadow file is closed immediately after > Daniel> each fetch. > > This is probably because the patch that allows Debian's Perl to > use getspnam() and friends is pretty new and untested. > > Is there any way you can look at > http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl-porters/1998-03/msg01574.html > and see if the patch there can be made better? > > Let's try to fix this problem.
My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals (writing C code that was callable from perl) - at least two years, which somehow seems much longer. Well, I'll have my machine download the perl source tonight and see what I can see... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
