On 3/11/25 2:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 12:55:51PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> Zorro noticed that on systems using nss-altfiles, some tests failed when >> trying to parse /etc/passwd directly. The "getent" command does the >> right thing in this case, so let's use it as long as it's available. > > Are the reevant systyems where it does not exist? It seems to come > with glibc and apparenly has for a long time. It's impossible for me to know whether any systems exist that don't have it, so I erred on the safe side to not break things for anyone. (i.e. it could depend on packaging etc, and I simply have no idea.) -Eric
