Making a dynamically-linked root

[Sebastian Lederer]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:04:03PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
[...]> 
> I especially like this suggestion. Are there any plans to implement
> a lookupd for FreeBSD or is anybody already working on it? If not,
> could the MacOS X sources be used (i.e. are they contained in Darwin)?

Darwin's lookupd is open source, but I think it would be too much work 
to adapt it to FreeBSD, since it is tightly integrated with Darwin's 
libc and probably depends on Mach IPC primitives.

I think the best bet is to write something reasonably simple from 
scratch and implement it as an NSS module, so that it can be installed 
without any changes to the rest of the system, especially without 
hacking libc.

- Sebastian Lederer
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