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[Bug libc/430] nsswitch.conf doesn't support TRYAGAIN=forever, giving bogus results when NIS is not responding
- From: "drepper at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 26 Sep 2005 14:56:24 -0000
- Subject: [Bug libc/430] nsswitch.conf doesn't support TRYAGAIN=forever, giving bogus results when NIS is not responding
- References: <20041007145959.430.matthias.andree@gmx.de>
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com 2005-09-26 14:56 -------
NSS is just a mechanism to tie the various lookup mechanisms together. The
single lookup functions always could return for temporary failures. It's not
NSS's job to correct those. The caller has always the possibility to restart
tthe operation since in these cases errno is set to EAGAIN. This gives also
much better granularity of the waiting. Some programs cannot wait really
forever but are able to wait a substantial amount of time. Adding all this
flexibility to NSS is not advisable.
So, fix the application which has the problem.
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What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEW |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=430
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