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Re: Fwd: SELinux support in Libc


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:40:24PM +0500, Shaz wrote:
> 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.

The wiki page you linked seems to be pretty clear on everything (up to
minor omissions) - the main usecase is to cache results returned by
nss_nis, nss_ldap and such. nscd will also cache DNS resolutions,
including state information like whether your DNS server supports
simultanous A/AAAA queries.

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