From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 5 03:02:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE54106566C for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 03:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3228C8FC18 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 03:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p952QJDi095884 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:56:25 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <86sjn84wco.fsf@ds4.des.no> Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:56:19 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <53BBCF50-2ACB-431B-9EED-0533A3F1BE78@gsoft.com.au> References: <86sjn84wco.fsf@ds4.des.no> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) X-Spam-Score: -4.391 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 03:02:42 -0000 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) :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C