configuring /var/run with newer autoconf

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Apr 12 08:55:00 GMT 2016


Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com> writes:

> I am not sure this is actually true. What is a part of ABI (as far as I
> understand it) is _PATH_VARRUN defined in sysdeps/generic/paths.h and
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/paths.h. However, this isn't what nscd
> uses. nscd has its own definitions in nscd/nscd-client.h and nscd/nscd.h
> which apparently are not exported to /usr/include and are not supposed
> to be used outside nscd. That means it should be possible to change the
> the location wher nscd keeps its stuff without breaking ABI.

_PATH_NSCDSOCKET is part of the ABI, it is used by libc to contact nscd.

Andreas.

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