Re: LibC status and others...

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

On Dec 10, 2003, at 5:42 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :I was just curious what the status of libc and NSS like functions such
> :as getpwnam_r and other thread safe POSIX goodies is in DragonFly at
> :the moment.
> :
> :KDE needs some of these functions and has to be patched to build
> :otherwise..
> :
> :That is ... it used to.  I must admit since I got my Mac I don't use
> :any Linux desktop software much anymore.
> :
> :Dave
>
>     We aren't going to be using NSS in that way... we will be using IPC
>     services for such lookups.  But if you need a getpwnam_r() it 
> should
>     be possible to adapt the existing getpwnam() (and other functions) 
> in
>     /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c.

Sure... I should look at this sometime :)

>     What I would do is rename, e.g., getpwnam() to getpwnam_r(), add 
> the
>     required passwd pointer, and use the pointer instead of the static
>     _pw_passwd.  Then write a new getpwnam() which simply aclls
>     getpwnam_r() using &_pw_passwd for the passwd pointer.

Yeah... that's pretty much what I was thinking about doing in FBSD... 
but it
was harder than it looked :)

>     Would you like to have a go at making this change?  If you know 
> any C
>     at all it should be a breeze.  If not, maybe one of the other 
> developers
>     would like to have a go at it.  If not that, then I can do it (it 
> would
>     take me less then 30 minutes to do).

I'd love to do it...

Dave

> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>