On Dec  3 10:26, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> > Here's what you get:
> 
> I finally realized, what was tingling me all this time.
> The implicit fallback mechanics. I'd rather want to have explicit declaration
> and a failure message in case something isn't right. Much easier to fix system
> issues, when the system tell you about them.

The fallback mechanism is pretty much required to have a sane default
which works for home users without having to change nsswitch.conf at
all.  Also, not everybody will want error messages rather than some sane
fallback (for any given value of "sane"), while if you don't want a sane
fallback, you can easily create an unsane fallback to help you maintain
your solution, e.g.

  db_home: cygwin /invalid/read-only-path


Corinna

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