Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:04:58 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.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: <CAGE5yCoHcBepk9hU=yA8_OkVPU_kYOhRceAMDJqEq74NE6jFyA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E40E20E.5050804@FreeBSD.org> References: <201108060916.p769Gr4A043462@svn.freebsd.org> <9DDF0DAB-9056-45CD-8CE9-81B621A35B13@nitro.dk> <CAGE5yCoU7HM7bR-7u9z1=LcTSo=q4Ls1abpY%2BGVMXob%2BZWvwfA@mail.gmail.com> <4E40E20E.5050804@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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. =A0The 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.
It does what?? The code is completely passive unless NIS is configured.
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