100% CPU usage and no login

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Greg Dickie wrote:

> 
> Errr,
> 
>   I feel honored. I do not actually write any code, I just bitch about the bugs
> ;-) Apparently I'm useless at that too since I did not catch this getgrgid()
> thing. Indeed the man page indicates that it searches from the beginning of the
> file and therefore could easily reset the pointer in some implementations. 
> 
> Luke, waddaya think? I could always start to write code and fix this up
> although my programming skills are unfortunately a bit rusty.

well now i know what i suspected to be the problem is in fact the case
(nested getgrnam() loops) i can fix it.