Re: nsswitch meets current

[Dampure, Pierre Y.]

Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote:
> 
> tanimura> You still need host.conf to run old binaries (including Netscape)
> tanimura> linked against libc.so.3 and earlier. I prefer to warn 'host.conf is
> tanimura> for compatibility with old libc.'
> 
> Is there any chance that compat1x, compat2*, compat3x includes
> /etc/host.conf for backward compatibility ? Users who install FreeBSD
> to fresh PC will meet unpredictable behavior if users run Navigator...
> 
This might be true for the FreeBSD binary, but does not seem to be for
the BSDI one -- I suppressed /etc/host.conf and have yet to encounter a
problem...


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