[Debian-eeepc-devel] Changes for eeepc-acpi-scripts

[Nico Golde]

Hi Miek,
* Miek Gieben <miek at miek.nl> [2008-06-12 13:44]:
> [ Quoting Nico Golde in "Re: [Debian-eeepc-devel] Changes fo"... ]
> > > Any reason why ~$user cannot be used?
> > 
> > Not sure but why would this be better than using the name 
> > service switch?
> 
> nsswitch is handled by libc, libc is used by the shell, so 
> any ~ expansion is handled transparently. In other words:
> it just works and does the right thing (TM).

The same applies for getent ;) I don't see the need for this 
"optimization" here. Besides that both, the shell and getent 
use the same syscalls to get the result ;)

Cheers
Nico
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