On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Peter Danielsson wrote:
> I wrote a small test application that tries to read one entry from
> the passwdfile (using getpwnam("root")) but it fails(returns NULL).
> The extisting a.out login works fine which makes me believe there
> is a bug in glibc. Is this the case, or am I plain stupid and forgets
> something?
I think people have successfully built systems based entirely on ELF and
glibc now (RedHat, Debian, Titan, ...). It's possible there is a bug in
getpwnam but it doesn't seem all that likely. Did you look with strace to
see what was going on?
p.
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