On Mon, 15 May 2000, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
..
> If you install glibc-2.1.3 from source, the documentation
> for the functions is installed as info pages in
> /usr/info/libc.info*. Just run the info command
> and you get the documentation from your local disk.
> Remember that we are using open-source (as in source code?)
> and so it is always better to install source than binary.
While on the topic of glibc.. the manual has a (little too short)
description of writing your own NSS modules. I tried to write one which
allows lookups via MySQL instead of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but it
didn't work too well. It's pretty hard to debug because it's an SO (shared
object). I had to put in a lot of syslog()'s and tail the syslog message
file.
If anyone else is working on this sort of thing (you can easily imagine
the scaling beauty of a working setup :) I'd appreciate your dropping me
a note.
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