Why don't you add an early-out for namelength = 15 or put the
if-statement in the loop:
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* Nick Hibma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010908 04:51] wrote:
Why don't you add an early-out for namelength = 15 or put the
if-statement in the loop:
This is a good idea, however it fails for the case when everyone
has been assigned usernames that are less than 15 characters, I
would suggest putting
Le 2001-09-08, Nick Hibma écrivait :
Why don't you add an early-out for namelength = 15 or put the
if-statement in the loop:
Well, in my case all usernames are = 8 characters, so the proposed
changes would not prevent a complete walk of the NIS db.
Thomas.
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... because it walks through the entire NIS db just to find out what the
longest user name is (/src/usr.bin/top/machine.c 1.5). At this site,
this means 2800 RPC calls and dozens of seconds when the network and/or
NIS server are busy.
What do others think of the following patch?
Thomas.
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