I had to lookup what NSS actually is: ‘ NSS is glibc's name service switch. It lets you (via /etc/nsswitch.conf)’
So, as far as NSS goes, it is a non-issue for AIX as AIX has always had a built-in NSS like service configured via /etc/netsvc.conf. FYI. From: curl-library <curl-library-boun...@lists.haxx.se> On Behalf Of Jason Proctor via curl-library Sent: Monday, 31 January 2022 23:08 To: libcurl development <curl-library@lists.haxx.se> Cc: Jason Proctor <ja...@spatialinc.com> Subject: Re: Has the time come to drop NSS? Not to say one way or the other on deprecating NSS support, but the NSPR functions it calls do still have some documentation online -- https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/ PR_Recv() is documented here - https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/reference/html/priofnc.html#18943 J (spatialinc still uses NSPR) On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 23:56, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library@lists.haxx.se <mailto:curl-library@lists.haxx.se> > wrote: Hello, This morning we got a fresh issue [1] filed that involves the NSS library. When I started to investigate this I ran a few google searches for some of the invovled functions in NSS, such as PR_Recv, only to realize that there just is no documentation for this to be found online anymore - anywhere. At least my searches fell short. (Which made me file [2]) This is not in itself an alarming situation for us right now, since we can still just use it like before, but to be this is a very clear sign that the NSS team doesn't even bother anymore. To me, this is a clear sign they've stopped caring and a message for us to reconsider if leaning on this leg is a good idea for our users. Going forward into the mist with no map is not the future I want. Is it time to drop support for NSS? I don't think any distribution is shipping curl build with NSS by default anymore. I know there still are users of it, like the issue that triggered me into this shows, but I think most users can be transitioned over to other TLS backends. Maybe we should set a date, maybe late 2022 and if things are still as grim-looking in NSS-land as today we then say goodbye? [1] = https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8341 [2] = https://github.com/mdn/content/issues/12471 -- / daniel.haxx.se <http://daniel.haxx.se> | Commercial curl support up to 24x7 is available! | Private help, bug fixes, support, ports, new features | https://curl.se/support.html -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html -- <https://www.spatialinc.com/> <mailto:ja...@spatialinc.com> Jason Proctor <https://www.spatialinc.com/> Platform Engineer <https://www.spatialinc.com/> spatialinc.com
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