From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/7087 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Solar Designer Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: [PATCH] support alternate backends for the passwd and group dbs Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:18:43 +0300 Message-ID: <20150223061843.GA8602@openwall.com> References: <1424658940-16635-1-git-send-email-josiahw@gmail.com> <1424660290-25921-1-git-send-email-josiahw@gmail.com> <20150223060840.GB23507@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424672336 27831 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2015 06:18:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:18:56 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-7100-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Feb 23 07:18:51 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YPmLz-0000pP-AX for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 07:18:51 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 13558 invoked by uid 550); 23 Feb 2015 06:18:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 13523 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2015 06:18:46 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150223060840.GB23507@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:7087 Archived-At: 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