On 05/26/2010 01:44 PM, Shaz wrote:
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> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Shaz <shazalive@gmail.com 
> <mailto:shazalive@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         I was building eglibc and saw selinux support flag in it's
>         configure script. Any idea what this is used for. Some hints
>         and pointers needed.
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>         SELinux works for me without this support as far as I
>         understand but need to get all the goodies that are available.
>         Couln't find anything with a bit of googling!
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>     According to Eric it has something to do with nscd. Is nscd part
>     of libc now? Why do we need an object manager here?
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>     "
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>     Glibc's nscd keeps its name service caches in fixed-size files.  These
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>     are always mmap'd into the nscd daemon address space.  "persistent" and
>     "shared" are both per-name-service options.
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>     "
>     http://anusf.anu.edu.au/~djh900/nscd.html
>     <http://anusf.anu.edu.au/%7Edjh900/nscd.html>
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> http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/NSS_Caching mentions some 
> concepts but what can be a possible usecase to understand what this 
> object manager really achieves.
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> By the way could;nt find relevant eglibc mailing list for this question.
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> -- 
> Shaz
>
I would try libc:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
(maybe libc-help, and/or general question
list or something).

Justin P. Mattock