FW: Speed comp. TNG & 2.2.alpha (fwd)

[Peter Samuelson]

  [me]
> > This whole thing needs caching -- the above sounds like a lot of
> > overhead.

[Steve Langasek]
> That sounds like over-engineering to me.

True.  If the caching needs to be done it can be done at the libc
level, which I think already happens on many Unices.

> How do you decide generally which group names should be ignored?  I
> can certainly think of cases where I might have a file whose gid maps
> to a group that conflicts with a username and I /do/ want to show the
> group in the file permissions...

That's a very good point.

Peter