[PATCH v2] nsswitch.conf.5: Current glibc reloads this configuration file

[PATCH v2] nsswitch.conf.5: Current glibc reloads this configuration file

[Florian Weimer]

The implementation happened across multiple glibc commits, but the work
was completed for glibc 2.33.

Signed-off-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>

---
v2: Semantic line breaks.
 man5/nsswitch.conf.5 | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
index 098585cf1..b4c5b865a 100644
--- a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
+++ b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5
@@ -402,11 +402,13 @@ for respective databases:
 .PD
 .RE
 .SH NOTES
-Within each process that uses
-.BR nsswitch.conf ,
-the entire file is read only once.
-If the file is later changed, the
-process will continue using the old configuration.
+Starting with glibc 2.33,
+.\" https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12459
+.B nsswitch.conf
+is automatically reloaded if the file is changed.
+In earlier versions, the entire file was read only once within each process.
+If the file was later changed,
+the process would continue using the old configuration.
 .PP
 Traditionally, there was only a single source for service information,
 often in the form of a single configuration

base-commit: b106cd5bf43fe806100bb5266b78f92bac90b6e0