On Feb 9 17:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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 ~);Huh, even though tcsh calls getpwent as well, this works fine: $ cd ~foo with foo being some not yet cached user name. However, with my current code this: $ cd ~<TAB> only returns the cached user entries. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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