Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: A module bug in 2.2.1? | Date | 5 Feb 1999 09:02:41 +0100 |
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hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes: > > What is nscd? > nscd is the daemon which caches (as of now) passwd, group, and hosts lookups (as defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf). It's multithreaded and way cool, mainly because it (and the linuxthreads library) went through ~four iterations of bugfixes until it finally worked without deadlocking under load. ;-)
Glibc 2.1 talks to it using a Unix-domain socket and falls back to interpret nsswitch.conf directly if that doesn't work.
The easy fix for this mess is "don't even try to build Unix sockets as a module". What for? You'll need it anyway, and it's a mere 9 kbytes. If you really need that kind of space, build a stripped glibc -- the heap of wide character functions which nobody needs(*) can be stripped off, for instance. Note, however, that glibc's build process doesn't support this out of the box...
(*) meaning, on an install/rescue floppy. -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network GmbH | smurf@noris.de | ICQ: 20193661 The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://www.noris.de/~smurf/ -- If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. -- Arthur C. Clarke
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