On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Shaz <shazalive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
According to Eric it has something to do with nscd. Is nscd part of libc now? Why do we need an object manager here?I was building eglibc and saw selinux support flag in it's configure script. Any idea what this is used for. Some hints and pointers needed.
SELinux works for me without this support as far as I understand but need to get all the goodies that are available. Couln't find anything with a bit of googling!
"Glibc's nscd keeps its name service caches in fixed-size files. These"
are always mmap'd into the nscd daemon address space. "persistent" and
"shared" are both per-name-service options.
http://anusf.anu.edu.au/~djh900/nscd.html
http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/NSS_Caching mentions some concepts but what can be a possible usecase to understand what this object manager really achieves.
By the way could;nt find relevant eglibc mailing list for this question.
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Shaz
