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>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes: Uli> Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes: >> I could use them, but struct __netgrent can only handle the case >> where you have one module in the /etc/nsswitch.conf netgroup line, >> not more. One module will overwrite the data from the previous >> module. Uli> If you look closely you'll see that the reason why the structure is Uli> passed to setnetgrent is to get around the problem of having a static Uli> buffer and also to allow multi-threaded applications. I remember that Uli> the NIS stuff had some limitations but I think at least the Uli> multi-threaded use should be possible. The problem is not the purpose of the extra argument but how to use it for *different* services without conflicts! files-netgrp uses from struct __netgrent the members private members - and therefore no other service can use it since the same argument is passed to all services: struct __netgrent { [..] /* Room for the data kept between the calls to the netgroup functions. We must avoid global variables. */ char *data; size_t data_size; char *cursor; int first; struct name_list *known_groups; struct name_list *needed_groups; }; If Thorsten would implement accessing these fields in NIS, it would break the service "files" :-( Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj
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