The implementation happened across multiple glibc commits, but the work was completed for glibc 2.33. Signed-off-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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..7049455ad 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, and +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
