Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:30:22 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r224674 - head/etc Message-ID: <4E40E20E.5050804@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGE5yCoU7HM7bR-7u9z1=LcTSo=q4Ls1abpY%2BGVMXob%2BZWvwfA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201108060916.p769Gr4A043462@svn.freebsd.org> <9DDF0DAB-9056-45CD-8CE9-81B621A35B13@nitro.dk> <CAGE5yCoU7HM7bR-7u9z1=LcTSo=q4Ls1abpY%2BGVMXob%2BZWvwfA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/09/2011 00:07, Peter Wemm wrote:
> As much as I'd like to see NIS die a painful death, the answer to the
> question of helping non-NIS users is "not much" as things stand.
>
> The nis, files and dns components are statically compiled into libc.
> There is no expensive dlopen("/usr/lib/nss_nis.so") to optimize out,
> unlike some other systems.
>
> The runtime overheads are negligible. The compiled-in routines check
> if nis activated with one syscall and immediately return NS_UNAVAIL if
> nis is not configured.
None of this is relevant. The problem is that when you install the
system, by default it generates errors for every access to /etc/passwd,
/etc/group, or /etc/services. This is a silly way to ship a system.
Doug
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