Re: [Duplicity-talk] passwd/group inefficiencies

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "MBP" == Martin Pool <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:15:24 +1000

  MBP> While I was experimenting with it, I noticed that it seems to
  MBP> spend an enormous amount of effort pointlessly re-reading the
  MBP> user and password files.  strace -e trace=open shows

Ouch, I didn't realize the password file got reread with every
pwd.getpwuid call.

  MBP> It seems to be a safe assumption that not too many users will
  MBP> be created in the course of a backup run.  Perhaps it would be
  MBP> worth inserting a read-only cache in that file -- just read
  MBP> both files up front and stick them in dictionaries?

Right.  I just filed a bug about it.
(https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=4666&group_id=3199)


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Ben Escoto

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