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Re: [RFC] per-user ~/.hosts file


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( http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2011-03/msg00002.html )


On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Raphaël Droz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I started working on a nss library aimed to resolve hostnames according to
> a user "hosts" file (in $HOME/.hosts) [1]
> 
> Of course, one has to be root to change /etc/nsswitch.conf in order to
> use a ~/.hosts file so the real use is limited
> (the reason why such code never landed on the ML before today :p ?)
> 
> Anyway it may be useful for completion, to easily give aliases to
> friends during ad-hoc lan-parties or when rsync'ing its home between
> several machines (while keeping host aliases) and... it may be seen as a
> didactic step in setting-up per-user dns :)
> 
> 
> In this attempt to reuse the /etc/hosts parser, I ended up with a
> copy of some files from glibc/nss/ and a patch (attached) [2]
> 
> Other than that, there is just a map-file and two functions which just
> call glibc ones.
> 
> What I would really like now are advises on how I may have played nicer
> with the glibc. I was a bit disappointed when I realized I was not able
> to really use shared libraries.
> 
> Why glibc #defines DATAFILE, is it for performance reasons only ?
> simplicity ? Would it be an enhancement to make this "files-XXX"
> nss-databases related functions more reusable ?
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance for reviews and suggestions.
> 
> 
> Raphaël
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://gitorious.org/nss-dothosts/nss-hostslocal/trees/master
> As stated in the README I took the liberty to use the "template"
> initially provided on https://github.com/apetresc/nss-hostslocal
> 
> [2] generated from git diff 63d53..HEAD glibc/*.*
> The files come from glibc 2.11.2


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