From: Jesse Hathaway <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [musl] Plans to remove nscd in Fedora
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:14:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANSNSoXvHSN6fBo6oAdZzC7OFrrekAxSiFCY9XZ-tp5wTCTCJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfa416c5-8baf-64ba-cdf7-8ebb83dfc26b@redhat.com>
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 8:29 AM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> My opinion is that we want something much thinner than nscd to provide
> NSS for statically linked applications, and that such an interface
> should not provide caching. If we really wanted we could keep the nscd
> socket interface but implement an NSS daemon for this e.g. nssd that would
> just run all the time and could be depended upon by static applications.
> It would have to be well audited and very simple.
>
> The caching that nscd does has many legacy problems that are better solved
> and maintained by other daemons that implement a split NSS module approach
> (as Florian notes).
Given the increasing prevalence of statically deployed programs from languages
such as C, Go, Rust, and even Haskell. I would love to see continued
distribution support for querying NSS from these programs. An nscd variant
without caching seems like a good approach, but I think it would be unfortunate
to remove nscd from distributions before an alternative approach was available.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-23 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1924902939.18027073.1603105167534.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>
2020-10-19 11:13 ` Arjun Shankar
2020-10-20 1:08 ` Rich Felker
2020-10-23 11:35 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-23 12:01 ` Tim Tassonis
2020-10-23 12:09 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-23 13:29 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-10-23 13:37 ` Laurent Bercot
2020-10-23 14:14 ` Jesse Hathaway [this message]
2020-10-23 16:58 ` Rich Felker
2020-10-26 12:20 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-26 13:12 ` Rich Felker
2020-11-02 13:54 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-02 14:50 ` Rich Felker
2020-11-03 9:07 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-03 15:41 ` Rich Felker
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