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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | bug#1224: [PATCH] user/group name completion |
| Date: | Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:08:24 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
> But I don't see the advantage over parsing /etc/passwd or /etc/group
> manually (or calling a shell command that does it).
It's always good practice to use an API rather than reimplement it.
It also will make it work right with NIS, ...
Stefan
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