After collecting a bunch of emails from the list, this is the approach I'll be taking:
1. use the existing nsdispatch code obtained from NetBSD as a base for parsing the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. 2. Make the C library nsdispatch aware. The dtab[] array will be filled dynamicaly from the contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf. I'm still not sure if this has to be done "whithin" the C library or if nsdispatch should fill the dtab[] array itself and not relay on the caller (i.e. drop the dtab[] parameter). It seems to me at this point that the easiest approach is to have nsdispatch fill the dtab array itself. 3. Move the current implementation of the get*ent and get*by* from the C library to three dynamically loaded modules, namely: nss_files.so, nss_nis.so, and nss_dns.so 4. Add more nss_*.so modules for things like LDAP, etc. once again: comments, suggestions. Someone mentioned that we should still be able to produce statically linked binaries for things like /stand and /sbin. I suggest making the nsdispatch (or get* functions) revert to files if everything else fails (not the modules themselves, but the loading of the modules). How does this sound? Regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger oboni...@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
