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Date:      Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:56:19 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does anyone use nscd?
Message-ID:  <53BBCF50-2ACB-431B-9EED-0533A3F1BE78@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <86sjn84wco.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <86sjn84wco.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On 05/10/2011, at 1:50, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> I ask because when I cleaned up a slew of aliasing bugs a couple of
> years ago, I believe I may have introduced a bug; I got exactly two
> complaints, and neither of the complainants could be bothered to try =
the
> workaround I suggested and report back.
>=20
> Although the code quality is atrocious, nscd is actually a pretty good
> idea.  I suspect the reason why nobody uses it is that it's off by
> default and people simply don't know about it.  Besides nuking it, =
which
> would be a shame, we have a range of options, from "just fixing the =
bug
> so those who want to use it can" in one end to "finding someone =
willing
> to clean it up and maintain it and enable it by default" in the other.
>=20
> (no, I'm not volunteering to maintain it)

I'd be interested in testing your workaround(s) :)

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