why separate getpwent routines for YP?

[Vernon Schryver]

In article <664 at alias.UUCP>, chk at alias.UUCP (C. Harald Koch) writes:
> This brings up a question I have been meaning to ask: Does SGI compile their
> standard UNIX programs with YP support? login works, but it appears that csh
> was not compiled with YP;...
> 
> C. Harald Koch                        Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada
> chk%alias at csri.utoronto.ca      chk at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu      chk at chk.mef.org

Almost everything is linked with YP.  Csh has been from the beginning,
since the 4D csh started life as the 3000/2000 csh, which had YP in
3.5/2.5.  (Yes, csh did get re-ported from the 4.3 tape, but that was
latter.)  Most of the 1000's of machines on the SGI network use csh, and we
use lots of YP.  You can check to see if YP is present with
`strings /bin/csh | grep -i yp`.  It would be good to communicate the
details of your problem to the Hotline so that the bug (if any) can be
fixed or the local installation difficulty (if any) fixed.

The only significant exception I can think of is NeWS, which is not linked
with YP.


Vernon Schryver
Silicon Graphics
vjs at sgi.com