Andrey Aristarkhov wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Derek Robert Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>>I still think it should be modeled more after the getpwnam() type
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>system
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>>passwd functions and return a pointer to a structure containing all
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>the
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>>fields from the file so that the data can be cached and the passwd
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>file
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>>won't need to be reaccessed for every field.
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>You are right. There must be a struct like this
>struct cvs_passwd {
> char * username;
> char * passwd;
> char * alias;
> /* from CVSROOT/users */
> char * notify_name;
>} cvspasswd_t;
>and corresponded function
>
>cvspasswd_t * getcvspwent(const char * user, const char * passwd_file);
>or even better
>cvspasswd_t * getcvspwent(const char * user, int file_type /*
>PASSWD_LOCAL | PASSWD_ROOT */);
>PASSWD_LOCAL is for ~/.cvspasswd and PASSWD_ROOT is for CVSROOT/passwd
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>
Let's name them like the system functions. The system getpwent()
iterates over the entries in the file, returning a new passwd structure
with each call. getpwnam() looks up a single passwd structure by user name.
>>Unless my grasp of NT terminology is worse than I think, under local
>>mode on UNIX, the caller principal is assumed to be the user name.
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>Does
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>>something prevent that under NT?
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>Sorry for some uncertainty. I meant that user's caller prinicipal and
>CVS user name could be deferent.
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What is written in the log file on commit in local mode under NT then?
Derek
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