On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote: > On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 21:12 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Steve Ellcey wrote: > > > > > > > > I would think so.  I did a search and didn't find any more "compat" > > > lookups beyond what you found.  Not doing these changes didn't cause > > > any testsuite failures but it does seem like they should be changed.  I > > > updated them and reran the testsuite and got no regressions.  Here is > > > an updated patch. > > Does this affect any defaults visible to glibc users?  If it does, it  > > needs an entry in the "Deprecated and removed features, and other changes  > > affecting compatibility" section of NEWS. > > I think everything is already in the 2.26 Depreciated section.  This > was done when the original patch to remove libnss_compat was made. > These changes are just dealing with the fact that that patch was > incomplete. But the impression that NEWS entry gives is that you can use --enable-obsolete-nsl to get back the previous semantics. Does your patch change the semantics in the --enable-obsolete-nsl case? -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com