Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 19:04:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Wagner <wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a dynamically-linked root Message-ID: <200306041704.h54H43DC044521@luthien.iceflower.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306031123461.13279-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <3EDCD0C1.1020300@acm.org> <20030604083801.GA74277@subway.linast.de>
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In article <20030604083801.GA74277@subway.linast.de> you wrote: > --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> The current /bin/sh must be dynamically linked because it relies on NSS. > One could implement an NSS proxy/cache daemon like lookupd in Mac OS X=20 > (or nscd in Linux/Solaris, although the general impression seems to be=20 > that "nscd sucks"). This way static binaries could use dynamic NSS=20 > plugins. > The cache daemon can be dynamically linked and make full use of all=20 > NSS plugins. > A small NSS module that can talk to the daemon can be included into=20 > all statically linked programs. I especially like this suggestion. Are there any plans to implement a lookupd for FreeBSD or is anybody already working on it? If not, could the MacOS X sources be used (i.e. are they contained in Darwin)? -- /\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ || Olaf Wagner | wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de (private) | || Cranachstrasse 7 | wagner@elego.de (business) | || D-12157 Berlin | phone: +49 30 85 60 26 70 | || Germany / Deutschland | fax: +49 30 85 58 01 88 | \/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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