Emiel Kollof wrote:
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> 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 qu=
eries
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>> this daemon, by some means.  Is this some means possibly the protocol =
you
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>> are outlining, would we need a layer in between (lwkt?) or would we us=
e
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>> something completely else?
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> You mean something akin to Netinfo (as it's used on OS X, and how it wa=
s used=20
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> on *STEP)?

I don't know how netinfo works in its internals, but something like it, m=
aybe.  Just netinfo sounds really big and fat and unusable (in my experie=
nce).  What I want is something small which just does one thing:  host pl=
ugins for NSS and reply to queries.

cheers
  simon

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