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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--CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDled7XY6L6fI4GtQRAvfpAJ9YhDgT4KsY19do3iArGig+LixbawCgyPj+ KJgNXqw1x4JvAwghd/2bCtg= =lsxm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5--
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