svn commit: r224674 - head/etc

[Doug Barton]

On 08/09/2011 00:07, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 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.

None of this is relevant. The problem is that when you install the
system, by default it generates errors for every access to /etc/passwd,
/etc/group, or /etc/services. This is a silly way to ship a system.


Doug

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