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On Friday 04 August 2006 20:35, Nicholas Miell wrote: > On 8/4/06, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Thursday 03 August 2006 22:23, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > however I'd like to point out > > > that bash does have programmable completion and you may be able to > > > work up some hack to do user/group name caching at that level > > > (unfortunately, I don't think you can override builtin completion > > > methods, which means you can't just say "instead of using builtin user > > > completion, call this shell function instead"). > > > > but that wouldnt work on nearly the same scale as nscd ... you'd get a > > cache for the active shell, but every new shell would have the same > > initial (minutes long) penalty when doing user completion > > Nothing stops you from maintaining a global cache shared by all shell > processes. huh ? and how would you go about doing that ? shells are sep processes that share no such data -mike
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