Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca> writes:

> Shouldn't it atleast be mentioned in the man pages?

getpwent(3):

BUGS
     The functions getpwent(), getpwnam(), and getpwuid(), leave their results
     in an internal static object and return a pointer to that object. Subse-
     quent calls to the same function will modify the same object.

The right thing to do is to use the thread-safe getpw*_r(), that
unfortunately aren't available in NetBSD.

/Johan