Re: having problems using 'gethostbyname'

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

dldudley%gmail.com@localhost ("David Dudley") writes:

>Edm is a pretty big program, made up of around 10-15 different libraries and
>component parts.

>The problem this program is having is clearly in the 'hosts' line of the
>nsswitch.conf file, and as I change my nsswitch.conf file, I can change the
>failure message from 'nss_dns.so.0' to 'nss_files.so.0' (don't see an error
>on loading 'nss_nis.so.0' however).

Looks like edm does something nasty, like doing a chroot or limiting
or exhausting ressources so that the nss shared objects cannot be
loaded.

Please try ktrace to find out what part of that process actually fails.

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