there is no more listing (enumerating) of hosts entries. Suspect: [1] +++++++ $ getent hosts; echo $? 0 $ getent hosts fifi 127.0.0.1 fifi $ getent ethers getent: Enumeration not supported on ethers +++++++ So this is inconsistent at least and it introduced different behaviour.
I could provide a man page fix and/or a current.html entry but fixing getent.c is beyond my coding foo. [1] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/getent/getent.c.diff?r1=1.5;r2=1.6 OpenBSD 5.3-current (GENERIC.MP) #103: Wed Apr 24 09:33:02 MDT 2013 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP