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Re: [PATCH] Move nss_compat from nis to nss subdir and install it unconditionally.
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Cc: Yury Norov <ynorov at caviumnetworks dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Steve dot Ellcey at cavium dot com, Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim dot kuvyrkov at linaro dot org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 18:32:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move nss_compat from nis to nss subdir and install it unconditionally.
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On 10/04/2017 06:01 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
and that the failure to log in produces an error message that will
point the sysadmin at least vaguely in the right direction.
This requires more work because __nss_lookup_function doesn't
distinguish a missing library from a library that does not implement the
function.
It also does not distinguish a missing library from a transient failure
during library loading (bug 22041). This is probably the more
significant issue here.
I don't expect this to be easy to fix, unfortunately.
Thanks,
Florian