LibC status and others...

[ibotty]

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>     getpwnam() must allocate a sufficiently sized buffer and deal with
>     ERANGE.  ERANGE must be returned if the buffer is not sufficient.

ahh, that was ERANGE. (i always confuse E-errors. i did not find ERANGE in
man errno, it seems ;)

>     Would you like to try again?

i will try to download dragonfly sources at university.
and, yes i want to try.

(because i find getpwent somehow messy, i will try to understand the
underlying mechanism and maybe rewrite it.)

~ibotty