Re: [PATCH] nscd.8: Correct NOTES section on reloading configuration files

[Petr Baudis <pasky-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

  Hi,

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:49:09PM -0500, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > The original notes were obsolete, current nscd watches changes in
> > config files.
> 
> Can you provide some supporting information here.  Pointers to
> relevant sources, or email threads.

  nscd/connections.c, git log nscd/connections.c. ;-)

> I think what I'm really meaning
> is: could you write a nice changelog entry for this patch.  Also, my
> reading of the patch is that you are changing the page because glibc
> changed at a certain point.  If this is the case, it would be good to
> note in which glibc version the change occurred, and then it would be
> better to rewrite the page to describe old and new behaviors, rather
> than just dropping the text that describes the old behavior.  Do you
> see what I mean?

  It behaved this way at least since "Sun Oct 18 15:02:11 1998 +0000",
some four months after including the nscd implementation in glibc. But
there does seem to be a short window between glibc-2.1 and glibc-2.1.3
when nscd -i was not available, I don't think it's worth muddling the
point of the page with that, though.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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