RFC: NSS prototypes

[Ulrich Drepper]

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

> I could use them, but struct __netgrent can only handle the case 
> where you have one module in the /etc/nsswitch.conf netgroup line,
> not more. One module will overwrite the data from the previous
> module.

If you look closely you'll see that the reason why the structure is
passed to setnetgrent is to get around the problem of having a static
buffer and also to allow multi-threaded applications.  I remember that
the NIS stuff had some limitations but I think at least the
multi-threaded use should be possible.

I don't care enough about this to argue and since I won't do the
implementation myself I leave it up to you.  Please provide some kind
of documentation about the limitations (perhaps in the FAQ).

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