library, it may pull in that thread library at run time. If the
process started out single-threaded, this could cause attempts to
release locks that do not exist. Guard against this possibility by
checking __isthreaded before invoking thread primitives.
A similar problem remains if the process is linked against one thread
library, but the NSS module is linked against another. This can only
be avoided by careful design of the NSS module.
Submitted by: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> (mostly; bugs are mine)
An incorrectly-sized allocation was being made due to an incorrect
argument to the `sizeof' operator. Obvious, because it violated the
`foo = malloc(sizeof(*foo))' idiom. Hard-to-see, because it was a
missing `*' (`*p' versus `**p').
Resulting failure was
Reported by: ache
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
may be built into libc (`static NSS modules') or dynamically loaded
via dlopen (`dynamic NSS modules'). Modules are loaded/initialized
at configuration time (i.e. when nsdispatch is called and nsswitch.conf
is read or re-read).
= Make the nsdispatch(3) core thread-safe.
= New status code for nsdispatch(3) `NS_RETURN', currently used to
signal ERANGE-type issues.
= syslog(3) problems, don't warn/err/abort.
= Try harder to avoid namespace pollution.
= Implement some shims to assist in porting NSS modules written for
the GNU C Library nsswitch interface.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
