Re: PATCH: disabling dependence on dynamic NSS modules

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday 20 February 2006 07:27, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Feb 19), Clint Adams said:
> > If one has zsh statically-linked against GNU libc, one will
> > encounter troubles if /lib/libnss*.so are missing or have a
> > different ABI from the glibc zsh was compiled against.
>
> If you run nscd, applications will ask it over a unix socket using a
> standard protocol, nscd will dlopen the required libs, do the lookups,
> and return the result.  It also caches results so access to slow
> providers like ldaps becomes tolerable. 


Slightly OT, but at least on Solaris nscd is known to be single threaded 
meaning using it will effectively serialize lookup-intensive applications 
(like web or mail server). They may have changed in recent versions though.
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