On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <si...@nitro.dk> wrote: > > On 6 Aug 2011, at 11:16, Doug Barton wrote: > >> Author: dougb >> Date: Sat Aug 6 09:16:53 2011 >> New Revision: 224674 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224674 >> >> Log: >> Rather than edit the nsswitch.conf file based on ${MK_NIS} == "no" >> comment out the NIS _compat options by default, but leave them in >> the file for the convenience of users who want to enable it. >> >> Update the comment in the file accordingly. > > This disables NIS by default which is rather surprising considering there has > been no prior (which I have been able to find) discussion of this. > > At the _VERY_ least people need to be warned about this loudly. Unless you > can show this really helps non-NIS users this is IMO a bad idea.
As much as I'd like to see NIS die a painful death, the answer to the question of helping non-NIS users is "not much" as things stand. The nis, files and dns components are statically compiled into libc. There is no expensive dlopen("/usr/lib/nss_nis.so") to optimize out, unlike some other systems. The runtime overheads are negligible. The compiled-in routines check if nis activated with one syscall and immediately return NS_UNAVAIL if nis is not configured. As much as I hate NIS, I suspect this will break every single user of NIS who happens to also use mergemaster -U. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"