[PATCH] Remove compat from DEFAULT_CONFIG lookup strings

Steve Ellcey sellcey@cavium.com
Mon Aug 28 21:50:00 GMT 2017


On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 20:47 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> 
> I think the documentation in the manual needs to be updated.  
> Specifically, nss.texi documents the defaults for various NSS databases, 
> and it needs to be made to reflect how the defaults depend on how glibc is 
> configured.

OK, I can update the documentation.

> 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?

Steve Ellcey
sellcey@cavium.com



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