family of functions using the new nsdispatch(3) core. Remove
arbitrary size limits when using the thread-safe versions.
= Re-implement the traditional getpwent(3)/getgrent(3) functions on
top of the thread-safe versions.
= Update the on-disk format of the hashed version of the passwd(5)
databases to allow for versioned entries. The legacy version is
`3'. (Don't ask.)
= Add support for version `4' entries in the passwd(5) database.
Entries in this format are identical to version 3 entries except
that all integers are stored as 32-bit integers in network byte
order (big endian).
= pwd_mkdb is updated to generate both version 3 and version 4
entries.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
configure FreeBSD so that various databases such as passwd and group can be
looked up using flat files, NIS, or Hesiod.
= Hesiod has been added to libc (see hesiod(3)).
= A library routine for parsing nsswitch.conf and invoking callback
functions as specified has been added to libc (see nsdispatch(3)).
= The following C library functions have been modified to use nsdispatch:
. getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid
. getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid
. getusershell
. getaddrinfo
. gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr
. getnetbyname, getnetbyaddr
. getipnodebyname, getipnodebyaddr, getnodebyname, getnodebyaddr
= host.conf has been removed from src/etc. rc.network has been modified
to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time. In addition, if
there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot
time from the former.
Obtained from: NetBSD
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
