From: Klaus Klein (kleinkreziprozitaet.de)
Date: Wed Sep 10 2003 - 07:00:22 CDT

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itojunitojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino) writes:

>> Luke Mewburn <lukemNetBSD.org> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:10:34PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>> > | i propose to add this into libc.
>> >
>> > do you intend to use it by other libc (or lib*) functions, or is this
>> > purely an "end user app" thing. if the latter, is libutil more
>> > appropriate?
>> >
>> > otherwise, looks useful.
>>
>> On that note, is there any ongoing work on the getpw{nam,uid}_r(3)
>> front? That would make pw_dup(3) fairly pointless.
>
> i propose to bring in BIND8, and the proposal got rejected.
> i still think BIND8 is the way to go.

Actually, how is that issue related to passwd/group database
operations, other than tossing nsswitch?

- Klaus

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