This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
the Himalayas and become a hermit.)
Import new mknetid program. This replaces the crufty, soon to be defunct
mknetid script packaged with ypserv.
This program parses the group, passwd, hosts and netid databases into
the netid.byname map. Duplicate checking is performed using hash tables.
Testing on my 486DX2/66 with FreeBSD 2.1.0 showed that this program can
process a 30,000-entry passwd database into a netid map (along with
assorted group and hosts information) in about 22 seconds. On my SPARC IPX
with SunOS 4.1.3, it takes about 15 seconds. This compares favorably with
the SunOS mknetid program, which parses the same database(s) in 13 seconds.
(With smaller databases, my program is actually slightly faster. Go
figure.)
Dima Dorfman
Ruslan Ermilov
Jimmy Olgeni
Peter Wemm
Robert Nordier
Philippe Charnier
Jordan K. Hubbard
Bill Paul