Question on /etc/nsswitch.conf

[Florian Weimer]

On 10/02/2017 02:50 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Okt 02 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Could the code call uname directly instead?
> 
> uname has nothing to do with the NIS domain, or any domain.

That's not how I read the implementation.  Could you elaborate?  How can 
the NIS domain and the kernel domain differ?

It's not what I would expect, but based on the code, I don't see how the 
NIS domain can be configured separately.  The local static ypdomainname 
variable in ypclnt.c appears to be set by yp_get_default_domain only, 
and that eventually gets the data from uname.

Thanks,
Florian