From: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] support alternate backends for the passwd and group dbs
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:18:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150223061843.GA8602@openwall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150223060840.GB23507@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 01:08:40AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 08:58:10PM -0600, Josiah Worcester wrote:
> > when we fail to find the entry in the commonly accepted files, we
> > query a server over a Unix domain socket on /var/run/nscd/socket.
> > the protocol used here is compatible with glibc's nscd protocol on
> > most systems (all that use 32-bit numbers for all the protocol fields,
> > which appears to be everything but Alpha).
>
> I'm committing with the attached additional changes [...]
Hmm. I guess this was discussed before, but I am surprised. Wasn't
nscd intended for caching rather than to provide a fallback? If so,
does musl intentionally re-purpose it?
Alexander
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-23 6:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-23 2:35 Josiah Worcester
2015-02-23 2:58 ` Josiah Worcester
2015-02-23 6:08 ` Rich Felker
2015-02-23 6:18 ` Solar Designer [this message]
2015-02-23 6:24 ` Josiah Worcester
2015-02-23 7:04 ` Rich Felker
2015-02-23 16:01 ` M Farkas-Dyck
2015-02-23 18:15 ` Rich Felker
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