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| author | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2003-11-08 08:48:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> | 2003-11-08 08:48:34 +0000 |
| commit | 1528771f284f2d8867dc807e6b14e019c1ead9d6 (patch) | |
| tree | b72f1557800c8824086e7578006ab8c2c1f742d5 /docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt | |
| parent | 2da24876a6ef26d87e68e7d1a61cf2104346e673 (diff) | |
Update docs in preparation for release
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt b/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt index 9d29267e2..0b78bf970 100644 --- a/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt +++ b/docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ functionality from uClibc is not a great loss. 6) uClibc does not support NSS (/lib/libnss_*), which allows glibc to easily support various methods of authentication and DNS resolution. uClibc only supports flat password files and shadow password files for storing -authentication information. +authentication information. If you need something more complex than this, +you can compile and install pam. 7) uClibc's libresolv is only a stub. Some, but not all of the functionality provided by glibc's libresolv is provided internal to uClibc. Other functions @@ -47,9 +48,9 @@ are not at all implemented. 8) libnsl provides support for Network Information Service (NIS) which was originally called "Yellow Pages" or "YP", which is an extension of RPC invented by Sun to share Unix password files over the network. I personally think NIS -is an evil abomination, and should be avoided. These days, using ldap is much +is an evil abomination and should be avoided. These days, using ldap is much more effective mechanism for doing the same thing. uClibc provides a stub -libnsl, but and has no actual support for Network Information Service (NIS). +libnsl, but has no actual support for Network Information Service (NIS). We therefore, also do not provide any of the headers files provided by glibc under /usr/include/rpcsvc. I am open to implementing ldap based password authentication, but I do not personally intend to implement it (since I have no @@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ encrypt_r, since these are not required by SuSv3. 13) uClibc directly uses the linux kernel's arch specific 'stuct stat'. -14) Add other things here as they come up...... +<other things as we notice them> |