From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 28 9:56: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 955D237B424 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gw.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 943CF1925D; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:55:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:55:55 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Seigo Tanimura Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw_class in _pw_passwd is null if __hashpw() is not called in prior Message-ID: <20000928115555.D42464@spawn.nectar.com> References: <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com> <14798.4853.288090.72159A@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20000924100812.A23848@spawn.nectar.com> <200009281350.WAA23538@bunko> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200009281350.WAA23538@bunko>; from tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:50:53PM +0900 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:50:53PM +0900, Seigo Tanimura wrote: > Here is another possible trouble. While libc.so.4 with nsswitch no > longer requires the magic '+' entry, libc.so.3 and earlier still > require '+'. If one needs to support applications using libc.so.3, then one needs to use the nsswitch compat mode (which is the default). OTOH, I hope to have nsswitch in 4.2-RELEASE. (I do the develoment on 4-STABLE.) > What we need before 5.0-RELEASE meets the world is a tool to find > binaries linked against libc.so.3 and earlier, and give a warning. This would be useful in any case. > It would also be helpful for us to (semi-)automatically update old > binaries installed by ports. (I have been trying this for a couple of > days) Personally I don't want sysinstall or make world to touch my ports. But a tool to do this would be great. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message