[PATCH] Remove compat from DEFAULT_CONFIG lookup strings

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Aug 18 22:12:00 GMT 2017


On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote:

> On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 21:12 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I would think so.  I did a search and didn't find any more "compat"
> > > lookups beyond what you found.  Not doing these changes didn't cause
> > > any testsuite failures but it does seem like they should be changed.  I
> > > updated them and reran the testsuite and got no regressions.  Here is
> > > an updated patch.
> > Does this affect any defaults visible to glibc users?  If it does, it 
> > needs an entry in the "Deprecated and removed features, and other changes 
> > affecting compatibility" section of NEWS.
> 
> I think everything is already in the 2.26 Depreciated section.  This
> was done when the original patch to remove libnss_compat was made.
> These changes are just dealing with the fact that that patch was
> incomplete.

But the impression that NEWS entry gives is that you can use 
--enable-obsolete-nsl to get back the previous semantics.  Does your patch 
change the semantics in the --enable-obsolete-nsl case?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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