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
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