On Sep 1,  8:04am, Love wrote:
} jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) writes:
} 
} > but I believe the *_r functions were invented to make things work in a
} > threaded world.
} 
} _r functions are also very useful for libraries so they don't clobber
} application's variables.

     Yes, I realise that.  I and a couple of others are current in the
process of sweeping the tree for getpw*.  It was during the sweep that
I noted the current issue of the return code.

}-- End of excerpt from Love