On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 14:31 -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > On 10/17/2012 02:26 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 14:12 -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > >> On 10/17/2012 11:07 AM, Simo Sorce wrote: > >>> > >>> Personally I do not like the nss_init() calls, it will just make it even > >>> more difficult to diagnose 'heisenbugs' when some apps start doing it, > >>> some don't and some other do it at the wrong time. > >>> > >>> I would rather have glibc do it automatically with rate limiting. > >>> Like no more than once every 3 minutes do a stat on one of the getent > >>> calls and reload if necessary, still this would be thousands of > >>> unnecessary (vs 0 necessary) stat() calls every day, not the best > >>> solution. > >> Rather than polling, why not use inotify? > > > > Because you do not want to have one inotify file descriptor open for > > each and every process in your system, it consumes system resources for > > no good reason. > Certainly wouldn't have one for each and every process, they'd be lazily > set up. However, even with lazy setup, we're probably still burning too > many fds. Given that a truckload of libraries touch the nsswitch interface it would still be most processes IMO. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
