Re: [PATCH] Only lookup uid/gid when applying rules

[Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 13:35, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 11:35 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > Attached is a patch that stops udev from doing a uid/gid lookup unless it
> > is actually going to use the rule.
>
> Nope, that doesn't really help, we want to to resolve the names once on
> udevd startup and not from every event process again and again.
>
> You may introduce a flag to udevd that tells to use only the built-in
> passwd parser. And also to wait only once for a timeout of getpwnam()
> and then automatically switch to the built-in parser. A later
> reload-rules event would try to use getpwnam() again, so you can update
> udevd when your network is available.

How about we store each name/number mapping in an array which is checked at 
each event processed before calling getpwnam()? Seems that would solve both 
issues.

Of course the array would be disposed of when the rules are reloaded.

Thanks

-- 
Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>
Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking)

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