Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:02:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> Cc: "Michael A. Bushkov" <bushman@rsu.ru> Subject: Re: dynamically linked root and nscd Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030627120119.73366G-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20030627115950.GA8424@technokratis.com>
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On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Bosko Milekic wrote: > I hate to intrude like this here, but I have a question. > > When you guys talk about "caching daemon," I hope you mean the same > thing. Do you mean "a daemon that would only do caching and be queried > by the libc stuff before the nss code calls the backend" or do you mean > "a daemon that the nss code would talk to and that would not only do > caching but also take care of calling the backend?" Because, in the > former case, you still need to dynamically link whereas in the latter > (more appealing case), you don't. What I have in mind is an NSS libc stub client that speaks to a UNIX domain socket, which hooks you up to nscd which dynamically links against the providers of the NSS lookup services. > I may be totally wrong here, but I could have sworn I saw someone > post about working/having worked on something like the latter somewhere > on our lists within the past two weeks. Could well be, and should definitely be looked at before implementing anything. It could also be that NetBSD has an nscd. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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