From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olivier Blin Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:28:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 098 release Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20060822235654.GA4267@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20060822235654.GA4267@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Kay Sievers 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(). Hi, 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? Regards -- Olivier Blin - Mandriva ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel