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Re: [PATCH] Remove compat from DEFAULT_CONFIG lookup strings

On Mon, 28 Aug 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote:

> > Does the "nis [NOTFOUND=return] files" default in 
> > nsswitch.c:__nss_database_lookup need to change as well?
> 
> I think this default is still OK.  The other changes I made were to
> remove 'compat' entries from the list of databases to be searched
> if the compat library is not built.  I am not sure why we would want to
> change this one.  Am I missing something?

Well, libnss_nis isn't built by default either.  Is there some reason for 
searching nis by default without the relevant library, but not doing so 
for compat without the relevant library?

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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