HEADS UP: new NSS

[Scott Long]

John Polstra wrote:
> In article <20030418014500.B94094 at iclub.nsu.ru>,
> Max Khon  <fjoe at iclub.nsu.ru> wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:35:14AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
>>
>>
>>>You might want to look at how libpam handles this situation.  In the
>>>static case, all of the known modules are linked into it statically.
>>>Then they are located and registered at runtime by means of a linker
>>>set.
>>
>>statically linking pam_ldap to /bin/ls will be a nightmare :)
> 
> 
> True, but why would /bin/ls need anything from PAM at all?  It
> doesn't currently use PAM.
> 
> 
>>we need either allow dlopen(3) to be used in statically linked programs
>>or move to dynamically linked /.
> 
> 
> Moving to a fully dynamically linked system sounds easier to me.
> But in the past there has been strong opposition to the idea every
> time it has been proposed.
> 
> John

Right, because everyone is deathly afraid of /usr/lib not being
available and nothing working, or ld.so getting corrupt and nothing
working, or beagles falling from the sky and nothing working.
FreeBSD is one of the few Unix-like OS's left that isn't fully
dynamically linked.
If switching to a fully dynamically linked system is desired before
6.0 then it needs to happen before 5.2.  I'm not opposed to this.

Scott