ls -l on Android device

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 08 January 2010 00:19:39 Tom Spear wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 January 2010 23:24:14 Tom Spear wrote:
> >> more importantly, no /etc, so there is no passwd file for performing uid
> >> to user name mappings etc.
> >
> > busybox doesnt query any /etc/ file directly so it doesnt care (ignoring
> > the loginutils that manage the files).  that is up to the C library to
> > manage.
> 
> Unless I'm missing something, this comment in procps/ps.c says it does
> care about passwd:
> 
>     /* TODO: get_cached_username() returns numeric string if
>      * user has no passwd record, we will display it
>      * left-justified here; too long usernames are shown
>      * as _right-justified_ IDs. Is it worth fixing? */
> 
> What did I miss?

a "passwd record" does not mean it needs /etc/passwd.  read the busybox code 
and you'll see that it does not parse /etc/passwd directly in any way -- it's 
using the standard functions C library functions to get records.  if you dig 
far enough, you end up at libbb/bb_pwd.c.
-mike
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