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Date:      Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:46:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org>
To:        Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
Subject:   Re: bringing /etc/services up to date
Message-ID:  <20040708084449.I43727@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de>
In-Reply-To: <1CDCA4DE-D057-11D8-9FB6-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
References:  <6.1.0.6.1.20040707033352.03dbca18@popserver.sfu.ca> <20040707181327.GE54749@over-yonder.net> <1CDCA4DE-D057-11D8-9FB6-003065ABFD92@mac.com>

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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Charles Swiger wrote:

CS>Lots of systems implement some external caching system (nscd, lookupd, etc)
CS>which those library calls access rather than iterating through the
CS>/etc/services file and related sources directly within each process which
CS>calls getservby*().  I'm not sure whether the sources for Solaris' nscd are
CS>handy, but I believe the sources for lookupd and friends are at:
CS>
CS>http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/opendirectory/

I remember someone from Russia or Ukraina offering something like nscd at least
twice during the last 12 month. What happend to that project?

harti


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