Date: 04 Jan 2003 23:23:01 +0000 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: wgrim@siue.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nsswitch help for you? Message-ID: <1041722581.17746.75.camel@zaphod.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <1040799271.3e095627bbce3@webmail1.isg.siue.edu> References: <E18R5Ip-000KLt-00@cs.huji.ac.il> <1040799271.3e095627bbce3@webmail1.isg.siue.edu>
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On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 06:54, wgrim@siue.edu wrote: > Quoting Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>: > > > what exactly do you want/need? > > danny > > Sorry, I'll try to get as specific as I can with my currently limited knowledge > of the FBSD source code. > > Basically, I would like to know where I can find information on the nsswitch > protocol (if that is even such a thing): perhaps a document or standards paper? The closest I've seen would be the nsswitch.conf man page from Solaris or Linux. Read what functionality is provided, figure out how to make that work on FreeBSD, write up your ideas, hack some code, ask for reviews along the way. I'm certainl you'll find people who are interested. > I will be downloading -CURRENT tomorrow so I can take a look at the current > nsswitch code, but is there anything you know right off hand that would help me? Ick? ;^) While you're out digging up man pages and such, be sure to look up gethostbyname_r, getpwuid_r, etc.; we've been needed these reentrant versions for quite some time now. You will most likely find that a proper implementation will provide the _r versions of these routines then implement the static versions on top of the reentrant ones. > I'm sorry for the incompetence and don't want to clutter -hackers mailing list > any more than I have too, but I don't exactly know what types of questions to > even really ask you yet. If there is any general type of information you have > to help the learning curve of the kernel though, I'd appreciate it. There's a world of difference between incompetence and just starting out. Please feel free to pester me for advice, moral support, reviews, etc. I started filling out the complement of _r routines in the library several years ago and quit when I got to getXbyY_r because the existing code was so turgid and the task a bit too daunting for the time I had available. Helping you finish it would lift a large load from my FreeBSD psyche. :^) -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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