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On Jan 5, 2004, at 3:38 PM, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> How's this for an solution?

This seems far more complicated than necessary.  Having to touch 
nsswitch.conf seems non-obvious.  After all, you already edited the 
file you care about!

I don't really see this as a better solution than the resolver simply 
detecting the condition itself and coping.

>
> 	Implement an optional "init" method for each nsswitch
> 	backend database (YP, DNS, files), which is called
> 	whenever nsdispatch reloads /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> This provides each database type an opportunity to (re)initialize
> itself, which may be useful to simplify various implementations
> that retain state.
>
> Then end user then just "touchs" /etc/nsswitch.conf to force a
> reinit of the method lookups used by nsdispatch (as currently occurs)
> and a reinit of the database backend.
>
         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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