"ls -l" command and performance of sftp

[Darren Tucker]

Damien Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2006, ponraj wrote:
> 
>> Patch to cache group and userids is attched along with this
>> mail. The patch looks up the cache first before proceeding with
>> getgrgid,getpwuid calls and thus reduces the amount of lookups and
>> increases preformance in environments such as LDAP database.
> 
> Isn't that what nscd is for?

Not all platforms have nscd, though.

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