Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:58:59 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too. Message-ID: <199907230558.WAA75688@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990722111605.C49393@palmerharvey.co.uk> References: <19990719204417.A5796@palmerharvey.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907221658170.67018-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In article <19990722111605.C49393@palmerharvey.co.uk>, Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > > > PAM is also "using masses of weird shared objects" but nevertheless it's > > quite usable > > By statically linked binaries? Our PAM implementation works for static binaries too. See the sources for the gory details. Basically it creates a library that includes all the possible modules, and selects the right one at runtime. There's some linker set magic involved. Concerning "masses of weird shared objects," you'd really better get used to it. It was the wave of the future 10 years ago. It's not going away. Dynamic linking provides flexibility and modularity that you just can't get from static linking. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199907230558.WAA75688>