From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1558 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Design for extensible passwd[/shadow?] db support Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:27:22 +0200 Message-ID: <5028F2AA.1020704@gentoo.org> References: <20120812053802.GA10971@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20120812205643.GT27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344860860 15337 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2012 12:27:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:27:40 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1559-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Aug 13 14:27:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T0tkC-00030P-17 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:27:40 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1589 invoked by uid 550); 13 Aug 2012 12:27:38 -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 1581 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2012 12:27:38 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120808 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1558 Archived-At: On 8/13/12 11:41 AM, Arvid E. Picciani wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:56:43 -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > >> I don't follow. What alternative are your proposing? > > > push user lookup up the stack and force ancient code to link in the high > level lib. > Now, musl _can_ break compatibility with GNU/Linux. Especially if it's > just "link against another lib". I do not see why. lu