--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Monte Goulding <mo...@sweattechnologies.com> wrote: > > > > Thinking it over, we could build a caching mechanism > and only fall back to "stat" if we don't have the id in our > cache already. > > Just what I was thinking. > > PS: ls -l on my machine doesn't truncate the user name. > > Cheers > > Monte >
Well, just to wrap things up, I implemented the caching mechanism with calls to 'stat' to fetch additional user and group names based on the uid/gid from the detailed files. See: <http://quartam.blogspot.com/2010/08/fun-with-detailed-files-and-stat.html> Cheers, Jan Schenkel. ===== Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution