Subject: Re: Forcing all nsdispatch(3) methods to be invoked
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/28/2004 12:36:44
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On Sep 28, 2004, at 8:26 AM, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> 	Some invokers of nsdispatch() (such as setgrent(3)) need
> 	to force all methods to be invoked, irrespective of the
> 	action criteria listed in nsswitch.conf(5).  This can be
> 	achieved by adding NS_FORCEALL to defaults[0].flags before
> 	invoking nsdispatch().  The return value of nsdispatch()
> 	will be the result of the final call- back method invoked.

This seems perfectly reasonable to me.  It's such a special case that 
it seems silly to add a new nsdispatch() API variant to handle it.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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