From 87bb4978dade6117f69799f435dad741eb741655 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:16:10 -0400 Subject: Use getent utility instead of perl. (Elan Ruusamäe) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- ...nt__40__1__41___from_glibc_to_retrieve_user_home___35__27.mdwn | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/todo/use_getent__40__1__41___from_glibc_to_retrieve_user_home___35__27.mdwn b/doc/todo/use_getent__40__1__41___from_glibc_to_retrieve_user_home___35__27.mdwn index a75ee8c..ee6e9ed 100644 --- a/doc/todo/use_getent__40__1__41___from_glibc_to_retrieve_user_home___35__27.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/use_getent__40__1__41___from_glibc_to_retrieve_user_home___35__27.mdwn @@ -4,3 +4,11 @@ https://github.com/joeyh/etckeeper/pull/27 url for git am: https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/joeyh/etckeeper/pull/27.patch + +> I had to guess at the motivation for this patch, which is never the best +> position for a patch to leave its receiver in. +> +> I guess that getent is a little faster than running perl to do the same +> thing. And, getent seems to always be available, at least on debian. +> +> So, applied, with some doubt. [[done]] --[[Joey]] -- cgit v1.2.3