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List:       dragonfly-kernel
Subject:    Re: Reviving userland LWKT
From:       "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode () fs ! ei ! tum ! de>
Date:       2006-07-13 11:01:18
Message-ID: 44B627FE.1040109 () fs ! ei ! tum ! de
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Emiel Kollof wrote:
> Op donderdag 13 juli 2006 01:49, schreef Simon 'corecode' Schubert:
> > Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > [excellent description of a fairly generic protocol]
> > 
> > could/would this be used for a possible implementation of NSS, for
> > instance?  I'm thinking of a NSS daemon which can handle standard NSS
> > plugins (ldap, sql, whatnot) and a libc getpwent(3) and stuff which queries
> > this daemon, by some means.  Is this some means possibly the protocol you
> > are outlining, would we need a layer in between (lwkt?) or would we use
> > something completely else?
> 
> 
> You mean something akin to Netinfo (as it's used on OS X, and how it was used 
> on *STEP)?

I don't know how netinfo works in its internals, but something like it, maybe.  Just \
netinfo sounds really big and fat and unusable (in my experience).  What I want is \
something small which just does one thing:  host plugins for NSS and reply to \
queries.

cheers
  simon

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