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nss_compat for non-NIS services
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:52:54 +0100
- Subject: nss_compat for non-NIS services
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Historically, nss_compat was documented as a NIS thing.
However, it seems that its used has evolved considerably since that. Do
we see a future for it beyond NIS? Should we advertise its existence
for use with non-NIS service modules?
Thanks,
Florian