From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 098 release
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:32:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156501940.3597.146.camel@pim.off.vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060822235654.GA4267@vrfy.org>
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:27 +0000, Olivier Blin wrote:
> Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:
>
> > udev 098
> > ====
> > The built-in /etc/passwd /etc/group parser is removed, we always depend on
> > getpwnam() and getgrnam() now. One of the next releases will depend on
> > fnmatch() and may use getopt_long().
> In Mandriva, we used this built-in parser so that the user lookup
> doesn't hang udevd when ldap is used.
>
> It's not a distribution specific problem, see this Debian bug report
> for a complete description of the issue:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug75077
>
> How is udevd supposed to handle user lookup when nsswitch is
> configured to use network-related services and no network is
> available?
Nssswitch is expected to be configured to look at the local files first,
before trying network lookups. System id's are not portable, not even
across Linux distros, so they should always come from the machine
itself.
Kay
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-22 23:56 [ANNOUNCE] udev 098 release Kay Sievers
2006-08-23 6:40 ` Tobias Powalowski
2006-08-23 7:43 ` Marco d'Itri
2006-08-23 8:40 ` Kay Sievers
2006-08-25 9:28 ` Olivier Blin
2006-08-25 9:44 ` Marco d'Itri
2006-08-25 10:32 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
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