why separate getpwent routines for YP?

[C. Harald Koch]

In article <8911301944.AA11476 at kailand.kai.com> pwolfe at kailand.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) writes:
>I installed YP (Yellow Pages) on our network this week, and RCS V4.2 commands
>started crashing with segmentation faults.  I found (from the getpwent(3)
>online manpage) that SGI ships two versions of the "getpw*" calls, one that
>understands YP and one that doesn't?  Once I learned this, it was trivial to
>fix the Makefile and recompile, but I can't help wonder why anyone would want
>to ship (and maintain) two separate versions?

This brings up a question I have been meaning to ask: Does SGI compile their
standard UNIX programs with YP support? login works, but it appears that csh
was not compiled with YP; ~user complains "no such user" when that user's
password file entry is a YP reference.

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