implenting BB variations of standard system calls

[Natanael Copa]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:50:02 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> fair enough.  i'll give this more thought and see if i can come up
> with some kind of coherent suggestion.  as a single example, i would
> suggest adding two new routines of the following form:
> 
>   map_username_to_uid()

btw.. since I am actually into this right now, what would a map_username_to_uid() function return if the username does not exist?

I don't think a map_username_to_uid() give anything else but a new name to getpwnam.

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Natanael Copa