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Date:      Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:33:17 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Michael Bushkov <bushman@rsu.ru>
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] nsswitch extensions + caching
Message-ID:  <20051206193317.GB31292@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4395DC82.1080103@elischer.org>
References:  <43957D3F.4070109@rsu.ru> <4395DC82.1080103@elischer.org>

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On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Michael Bushkov wrote:
> [...]
>=20
> so, I've been wonderring.. what's all the fuss about nsswitch?
> what does it get us?

It gives us the ability use modules to provide arbitrary backends for a
variety of interfaces to system databases.  For instance getpw*(),
gethost*(), etc.

-- Brooks

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