From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 05:40:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3BC16A400 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:40:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB9E13C45A for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:40:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) by mail.ntplx.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id l5F5e4tP029250; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:40:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.ntplx.net) X-Greylist: Message whitelisted by DRAC access database, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:40:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:40:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: bushman@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: cached to nscd (was Re: nscd for freebsd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: deischen@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:40:06 -0000 On Monday 13 November 2006 15:37, Michael Bushkov wrote: > Actually, cached is called "cached" because initially it was intended only to > cache the already obtained results of nsswitch queries. This is not how nscd > behaves. Nscd makes all queries (to LDAP, NIS, etc) by itself and caches the > results. cached only cached the results of requests, that have been actually > made by other applications. The name "cached" was used to highlight this > difference. > > Later, however, the nscd-like functionality was added to cached, but the name > was left unchanged. Personally I don't see any reasons why "cached" can't be > renamed to nscd right now - so I guess, it would happen in the nearest > future. What's the status of this (renaming cached to nscd)? Can we get this done before 7.0 goes out the door? -- DE