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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:55:55 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pw_class in _pw_passwd is null if __hashpw() is not called in prior
Message-ID:  <20000928115555.D42464@spawn.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009281350.WAA23538@bunko>; from tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:50:53PM %2B0900
References:  <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com> <14798.4853.288090.72159A@silver.carrots.uucp.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20000924100812.A23848@spawn.nectar.com> <200009281350.WAA23538@bunko>

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On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:50:53PM +0900, Seigo Tanimura wrote:
> Here is another possible trouble. While libc.so.4 with nsswitch no
> longer requires the magic '+' entry, libc.so.3 and earlier still
> require '+'.

If one needs to support applications using libc.so.3, then one needs
to use the nsswitch compat mode (which is the default).

OTOH, I hope to have nsswitch in 4.2-RELEASE.  (I do the develoment
on 4-STABLE.) 

> What we need before 5.0-RELEASE meets the world is a tool to find
> binaries linked against libc.so.3 and earlier, and give a warning. 

This would be useful in any case.

> It would also be helpful for us to (semi-)automatically update old
> binaries installed by ports. (I have been trying this for a couple of
> days)

Personally I don't want sysinstall or make world to touch my ports.
But a tool to do this would be great.
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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