[ On Sunday, November 12, 2000 at 00:17:39 (+0900), Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: endianness agnostic getpwent() 
>
> 	an additional note: i'm still not 100% sure if it is the way to go.
> 	it sounds too much, if /etc is supposed to be cpu/arch dependent
> 	endian.

Indeed.

In this particular case (i.e. for the output of pwd_mkdb), the system
should be resilient to loss of these files prior to any reboot thus they
should not need to ever be created in a build, let alone a cross-build.

Why not fix this in /etc/rc.d/ and forget about the mess at build time?

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