On Feb 9 08:45, Warren Young wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
>
> > Here's a better check that doesn't give false positives:
> >
> > $ cat <<END > checkfile
> > #!/bin/sh
> > if egrep -q '_getgrent(32|64)' "$1" ; then echo $1 ; fi
> > END
> > $ find /bin -name \*.exe -exec ./checkfile {} \;
>
> The strings(1) call got left out of that test. Here’s a working variant,
> which tests for getpwent() calls instead:
>
> $ cat <<END > checkfile
> if strings "$1" | egrep -q '^getpwent$' ; then echo $1 ; fi
> END
> $ find /bin -name \*.exe -exec sh checkfile {} \;
>
> Alas, Vim *does* call this API. Results:
It does so to evaluate a ~user in a path and I guess that's what other
apps do as well. This is kind of weird since it would obviously not be
necessary to enumerate accounts for this functionality:
if (~ in path)
if (~ is solo)
getpwuid(getuid ())
else
getpwname (username after the ~);
Corinna
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