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.
- getservent:
o put _yp_check() proto under #ifdef YP where it belongs
o local YP buffers should be YPMAXRECORD + 2 bytes long and should
be NUL terminated after copying
- gethostbynis:
o local YP buffer should be YPMAXRECORD + 2 bytes long
- getnetbynis:
o local YP buffer should be YPMAXRECORD + 2 bytes long and should
be NUL terminated after copying
- ether_addr:
o local YP buffers should be YPMAXRECORD + 2 bytes long and should
be NUL terminated after copying (in this case it's BUFSIZ + 2 bytes,
but it happens that BUFSIZ == YPMAXRECORD.
- gethostbydns:
o nuke stray 'return(NULL)' in __dns_getanswer() (harmless but looks silly)
These are 2.2 candidates. I will wait a few days to make sure these don't
break anything and then, if there are no objections, move them to the 2.2
branch.
lookup results. Without this, doing multiple host/addr lookups in a
single process yeilds strange results (the buffer is static, and
garbage may be left behind from previous lookups).
I just noticed this in 2.2-BETA. Unless somebody threatens to chop my
hands off with an axe, I'm going to move this to the 2.2-RELENG branch
shortly.
- Fix problem described in PR #1079: _gethostbynisaddr() doesn't
work. Make it accept the same arguments as all the other
gethostby*addr() functions and properly convert the supplied IP
address into a text string so that yp_match() can find it in the
hosts.byaddr map.
- Also fix potential memory leak: copy the results of yp_match() to
a static buffer and free the result (yp_match() returns dynamically
allocated memory).
ether_addr.c:
- Since I was in the neighborhood, fix ether_ntohost() and
ether_hostton() so that they don't bogusly for a free(result)
when yp_match() fails.
