NSS and db

[Ulrich Drepper]

Marcus Harnisch <marcus@harnisch.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> I wonder what the serial number is used for. I guessed that there is a
> convention that getXXXent() has to return entries in the same order as
> they appear in /etc/passwd, which would IMHO not be a very good idea.
> 
> Leaving out the serial number entry could reduce the size of the DB by
> about one third!

Why should we have added this if it wasn't necessary?  YOu need it for
the getXXent() functions.

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