Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:56:19 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? Message-ID: <53BBCF50-2ACB-431B-9EED-0533A3F1BE78@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <86sjn84wco.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On 05/10/2011, at 1:50, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > I ask because when I cleaned up a slew of aliasing bugs a couple of > years ago, I believe I may have introduced a bug; I got exactly two > complaints, and neither of the complainants could be bothered to try the > workaround I suggested and report back. > > Although the code quality is atrocious, nscd is actually a pretty good > idea. I suspect the reason why nobody uses it is that it's off by > default and people simply don't know about it. Besides nuking it, which > would be a shame, we have a range of options, from "just fixing the bug > so those who want to use it can" in one end to "finding someone willing > to clean it up and maintain it and enable it by default" in the other. > > (no, I'm not volunteering to maintain it) I'd be interested in testing your workaround(s) :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8Chelp
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