libnss_wins.so does not work under Solaris?!

[Toomas Soome]

no, last time I had a look into the code, it was all linux specific. I 
had an idea to create the port, but this project is delayed a bit...

toomas

Maier, Thomas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> does libnss_wins.so work under Solaris 8? It seems not.
> 
> Renames libnss_wins.so to nss_wins.so.1 and copied it into /usr/lib
> 
> Added in nsswitch.conf:
> hosts:  file dns wins
> 
> But a    ping  <hostname>   says only:
> ping: unknown hostname
> 
> 
> If ncsd is stopped, you can see with "truss ping hostname", that library
> nss_wins.so.1 is loaded, but it does nothing?!
> I even add a printf()  in _nss_wins_gethostbyname_r() in nsswitch/wins.c,
> but no output. Seems that the entry point is either not called, or has a
> wrong name?!
> 
> Any ideas?   Should libnss_wins.so work under Solaris?
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Thomas Maier
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toomas
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