Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Mar 1998 03:10:52 +0100 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: NSS and glibc |
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On Sat, Mar 14, 1998 at 02:44:47AM +0100, Roger Espel Llima wrote:
> > Well, PLT == Procedure Linkage Table, GOT == Global Offset Table, > > DSO == Dynamic Shared Object, the official ELFish word for shared lib, > > NSS == Name Service Switch, the /etc/nsswitch.conf thing in glibc and > > Solaris and yes, abrev. is the abrev. for abrev. ;-) > > And why does NSS pull another copy of glibc anyway? Seems like a rather > convoluted step to take, so if it's doing it, there has to be some good > reason.
The NSS libraries are shared libraries and due to the modular nature of NSS have to be. And those libraries again need libc, so a shared copy of it will be loaded.
Ralf
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