IPC nsswitch implementation

[Gordon Tetlow]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:41:33PM +0300, Michael Bushkov wrote:
> 
> Our implementation of lookupd is a demonstration
> of the approach for the FreeBSD-specific IPC implementation
> of nsswitch. Its architecture is
> flexible enough to implement all the features you have mentioned.
> The version that we have sent isn't a finished project. It's in the
> development stage and caching is currently our main task. We hope to make
> caching in the nearest future.
> We'll try to release stable and quite full version (i mean caching, LDAP
> module and so on) as soon as we can.
> 
> Our questions are:
> 1) What do you think about our whole approach to the IPC implementation
> development?
> 2) Is there an opportunity to use our implementation of lookupd in the
> FreeBSD project?

The thing that I'm most interested in is getting support for the existing
NSS modules out there (nss_ldap being my personal interest). Is there a
way with the IPC based model to make the existing in-process modules
(I'm thinking nss_winbind and nss_ldap) work with the IPC daemon? If not,
I doubt you'll get a whole lot of support for the IPC model because it
will cause us to incur a maintence cost to make these other very useful
modules work.

-gordon
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