Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:40:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: bushman@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: cached to nscd (was Re: nscd for freebsd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0706150135120.7731@sea.ntplx.net>
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On Monday 13 November 2006 15:37, Michael Bushkov wrote: > Actually, cached is called "cached" because initially it was intended only to > cache the already obtained results of nsswitch queries. This is not how nscd > behaves. Nscd makes all queries (to LDAP, NIS, etc) by itself and caches the > results. cached only cached the results of requests, that have been actually > made by other applications. The name "cached" was used to highlight this > difference. > > Later, however, the nscd-like functionality was added to cached, but the name > was left unchanged. Personally I don't see any reasons why "cached" can't be > renamed to nscd right now - so I guess, it would happen in the nearest > future. What's the status of this (renaming cached to nscd)? Can we get this done before 7.0 goes out the door? -- DE
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