[ On , December 21, 2001 at 10:59:41 (-0800), cgd@broadcom.com wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: RFC: migration to a fully dynamically linked system
>
> It's actually worse than that.  it gets included in libc... and
> because of the inherent nature of the nsswitch code, the generic
> e.g. passwd routines have to reference _all_ of the back-end passwd
> routines.  Thinking about it, since those need to do nsswitch parsing
> etc., probably all of the _other_ stuff understood by nsswitch has to
> get pulled in as well.

That's why you want it to be pluggable at build time.  But then we
already have that, so I don't see what the problem is....

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