Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:11:41 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r275768 - in head/usr.sbin: . vigr Message-ID: <867fxm1hle.fsf@nine.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20141220135125.GE21894@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> (Baptiste Daroussin's message of "Sat, 20 Dec 2014 14:51:25 %2B0100") References: <201412141640.sBEGelm0072509@svn.freebsd.org> <20141220135125.GE21894@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes: > I wonder why you chose making a script instead of using libutil? 50 lines of shell vs a few hundred lines of C... BTW, we need a new nss implementation; the current one has serious flaws that cannot be fixed without a redesign. That would be a good occasion to write a solid, shared passwd(5) / group(5) parser, and maybe get rid of pwd.db, which serves no real purpose and is not compatible with a full implementation of the + syntax. (we still have to generate it for the sake of older programs, but we don't have to use it) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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