Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 19:25:52 +0600 (NS) From: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: call for testers: nsswitch + dynamic linking Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012041907340.53890-100000@iclub.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20001025094231.A15563@hamlet.nectar.com>
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hi, there! On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > nsswitch extends the C library so that arbitrary sources may be > consulted by database routines such as getpwent, gethostbyname, and so > on. This implementation was based on NetBSD's implementation. I have > enhanced it to make the interfaces thread safe, and to provide support > for dynamically loaded nsswitch modules. > > Patches for 4-STABLE and 5-CURRENT are at: > http://www.nectar.com/freebsd/nsswitch. > Also available there are patches for PADL.COM's nss_ldap so that it may > be used with FreeBSD. > > Incidentally this also adds reentrant versions of common routines such > as getpwnam_r. Note that routines that eventually call the resolver are > only as thread safe as the resolver -- i.e. not really. bind 8 has nearly-thread-safe libresolv (only res_debug.c functions are not thread-safe) and this with your NSS patches will give us thread-safe (at least IPv4) resolver. any plans to merge libresolv from bind 8? btw when do you plan to MFC NSS stuff? thanks, /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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