On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:50:25AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Just not thinking out of the box, maybe. Matt, I'm talking about the de facto standard NSS, as found in Solaris and Linux; and now FreeBSD 5 [*] and soon NetBSD [**]. You are talking about some better mousetrap. The latter does not have any relevance to this thread, which is about dynamic linking in next release of FreeBSD. If you want to talk about FreeBSD 6.x and a better mousetrap, please go right ahead with a new thread here on freebsd-current or over on freebsd-arch. If you want to talk about the future of DragonFlyBSD, I'm sure there is an appropriate list for that--- this one ain't it. Parts of your message certainly seemed to describe what might be best for some other operating system. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine NTT/Verio SME FreeBSD UNIX Heimdal nectar_at_celabo.org jvidrine_at_verio.net nectar_at_freebsd.org nectar_at_kth.se Side notes: [*] The actual APIs used by Solaris and Linux are *very* different; and the APIs used by FreeBSD are *somewhat* different from Linux. However, because the *core concepts* are the same--- dynamic loading, in-process modules--- portability issues are not much of a problem. [**] NetBSD doesn't support dynamic loading yet, but has had considerable influence on the FreeBSD implementation. NetBSD developers have indicated to me that they expect to bring in the FreeBSD changes so that there will be basically the same implementation on FreeBSD and NetBSD.Received on Tue Nov 25 2003 - 11:14:26 UTC
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