On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 12:29:48PM -0400, David E. Cross wrote:
> I thought now would be a good time to chime in on some of my wild schemes...
>
> The reason I am interested in 'userfs' is to enable me to write a version
> of 'nsd'. Those of you familiar with Irix will recognize it. For others,
> what it does is to present the name-space on a machine as filespace.
> The advantages of this is that we can greatly simplify out libc to use the
> file/namespace that nsd provides. For example 'getpwent()' now becomes
> file accesses to /ns/.local/passwd/NAME. Another advantage that this
> abstraction provides is that it allows transparent alterations of the
> databases in use, even to the extent of NOT having to restart each client
> that may be using a specific database.
Lovely. Sounds like a much better way to do the Solaris/Linux (and
NetBSD?) /etc/nsswitch.conf stuff. On Solaris at least, this is
implemented using masses of weird shared objects...
--
Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator
In Mountain View did Larry Wall
Sedately launch a quiet plea:
That DOS, the ancient system, shall
On boxes pleasureless to all
Run Perl though lack they C.
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