On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:40:32AM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote:
I saw that. I guess my question is whether a default nsswitch.conf file will be checked into /etc and /usr/share/examples/etc, or whether it will be left empty? I would expect that if this capability was working, that a default nsswitch.conf would be checked into /etc.
Adding /etc/nsswitch.conf with the default settings would just slow the things down. For the same reason, we don't provide /etc/resolv.conf by default. Adding src/share/examples/etc/nsswitch.conf and installing it in /usr/share/examples/etc/ is a good idea.
On the other hand, having
/etc/nsswitch.conf.example
would
a) Advertise the existence of nsswitch capabilities in
an obvious place where people new to FreeBSD would
see it.
b) Document the defaults.
c) Not slow anything down.
d) Serve as an example and template for people just
getting started..Having additional examples in /usr/share/examples/etc would also be nice. (Ideally, with a comment in /etc/nsswitch.conf.example pointing to those additional examples.)
I do find Ruslan's logic here a bit peculiar, though. Having an nsswitch.conf with the default settings should only "slow things down" by the time needed to parse the file. Well-written parsers are very fast.
One could equally well argue that people for whom this level of performance really matters should read the release notes. ;-)
Tim
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