[RFC] per-user ~/.hosts file

[Ángel González]

Raphaël Droz wrote:
> simple ping as no answer given yet to this message:
> ( http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2011-03/msg00002.html )

Maybe noone has a strong opinion on it. Were you trying to merge
it upstream or just avoid the code duplication?
(in the later case, why is root intervention needed?)

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Raphaël Droz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I started working on a nss library aimed to resolve hostnames according to
>> a user "hosts" file (in $HOME/.hosts) [1]
>>
>> Of course, one has to be root to change /etc/nsswitch.conf in order to
>> use a ~/.hosts file so the real use is limited
If the purpose was to add it to glibc, would they be honored by setuid
binaries?