[patch-ish, WIP] Enhance comments in nsswitch.h

DJ Delorie dj@redhat.com
Wed May 8 21:40:00 GMT 2019


"Carlos O'Donell" <codonell@redhat.com> writes:
>> +  /* And the link to the next entry.  In a typical nsswitch.conf, this
>> +     is the passwd->group->hosts link.  */
>
> What does this mean? That this is the next entry in the file after
> translating it into a lit of entries (excluding comments)?

It's a link to, essentially, the next non-comment line in nsswitch.conf.
There are a lot of things labelled "next" in this header, keeping track
of next *what* is important.

We also don't have a lot of consistency and well-known terms for things
like "passwd or hosts" vs "dns or files" etc.

>> +/* The rest of this header is not-data.  */
>
> Remove this comment.

This is just a hint to me to stop reading the file ;-)



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