On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

# Hi!
#
# I've added a -h flag to my local vipw. vipw -h creates home directories
# for all users that do not have a home.
#
# What is your opinion about committing this change? There is one
# drawback: we should not use /nonexistent home directories in
# /etc/passwd, because vipw -h would create /nonexistent
#
# For now, I just create the directories, and give them away to their
# owners. I think about also copying the files from /usr/share/skel, and
# for this, I would need to define a _PATH_SKEL in paths.h. Any problem
# here?

It probably won't scale too well; if you have a passwd database with,
say, 40,000 users already, the first time you run 'vipw -h', it's going
to have to go out and stat 40,000 paths.  Don't know if you've noted, but
namei() is probably one of the more expensive filesystem operations :-).

# Emmanuel Dreyfus.
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# Désormais, les OS portent la date de peremption dans leurs noms.
# p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr
#


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