Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:38:49 -0800, Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_acm.org> said: >>There have been a lot of proposed solutions: >> * Rewrite NSS to not require dlopen(). >> * Rewrite dlopen() to not require dynamic linking. >> * Don't support NSS in /bin/sh. >> * Change the default script interpreter for rc and such. >> * Make dynamic linking faster. > > You forgot: > > * Allow statically-linked programs to use dynamic NSS modules > by forking a (dynamically-linked) resolver process when > needed. > > This leads to a related, but widely disparaged option: > > * Have a persistent NSS caching daemon with an RPC interface > that all programs can access for NSS lookups. You might > call such a program `nscd'. (Might as well be honest about > it.) Jacques seems to be of the opinion that the current 'nscd' is not up to the task. He would know better than I. TimReceived on Fri Nov 21 2003 - 15:14:34 UTC
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