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Re: static binaries and NSS
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:39:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: static binaries and NSS
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <20030610082350.GA8814@suse.de>
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Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> I think it is time that we add a linker warning to getpwnam and
> friends, that static linking and using this functions, which calls
> NSS, is a bad idea.
That's certainly a good thing to do regardless of any further action.
> Or should we go one step further and remove
> this functions from the static libc like Solaris did?
I want to take one more look at what is involved. The problem is
finding the time. It'll happen hopefully soon.
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