[fpc-pascal] libc unit and FreeBSD

[Jonas Maebe]

On 14 Jan 2008, at 12:03, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> A quick work-around for me would be to read the /etc/groups and
> /etc/passwd files looking for the Group ID or User ID and return the
> associated names.  I can parse and keep a copy of those files in
> memory while the File Dialog is open - than way it should speed up the
> lookups as the user browses through directories.
>
> Does anybody know if unix type OS's allow normal (general) users to
> read those files from /etc?

Yes, but they they do not necessarily contain any useful information.  
The actually used information may be on an ldap server, in a netinfo  
database, on an NIS server, on a SAMBA server, on a Windows Domain  
Controller, ... That's the whole point of the plugin system used by  
libc.


Jonas