LibC status and others...

[Dan Melomedman]

ibotty wrote:
> as i reworked getpwent.c quite a bit, i found, that writing this
> out-of-process, with a persistent buffer, is way easier.
> 
> besides being easier, access control is very much easier.
> even /etc/passwd could be 0400 (or 0440, owned by root with group of the
> daemon).

Hooray for Unix philosophy.

Is the daemon going to be listening on a Unix domain socket?