From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 9 07:30:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8623106566B; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 07:30:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 12-207-105-211.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 642371572A9; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 07:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E40E20E.5050804@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:30:22 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110706 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm References: <201108060916.p769Gr4A043462@svn.freebsd.org> <9DDF0DAB-9056-45CD-8CE9-81B621A35B13@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, "Simon L. B. Nielsen" , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r224674 - head/etc X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:30:32 -0000 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 -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/