Previously Torsten Landschoff wrote: > I do not like the idea to have a fixed database. That's not Unix style. And of > course that is not the goal. It's another implementation detail. Unix has lots of fixed databases. /etc/passwd, /etc/aliases, etc. etc. What we need to do is define a list of standard interfaces (getpw*(), etc.) so we can have multiple implementations of the database. The kind of database I proposed is *very* similar to how Unices currently handle database through /etc/nsswitch.conf. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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