In the last episode (Dec 06), Brooks Davis said:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:46:26AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > Michael Bushkov wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > so, I've been wonderring.. what's all the fuss about nsswitch?
> > what does it get us?
>
> It gives us the ability use modules to provide arbitrary backends for a
> variety of interfaces to system databases. For instance getpw*(),
> gethost*(), etc.
Michael's patch itself adds caching to our nsswitch implementation,
which dramatically improves performance on slow sources (ldaps, for
example).
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Dan Nelson
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