[PATCH] LOOKUP_NAME_EXPLICIT to avoid lockups between winbindd and nscd

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri May 25 18:44:58 GMT 2007


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simo wrote:

> Why our nss_winbindd loop protection does not kick in in this case?
> Do we explicitly disable it somewhere?

Because nscd is running outside of the environment process
space from winbindd.  without the patch a simple "getent group
foo" will hang when runing nscd and you can easily trace it
for yourself.



cheers, jerry
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