> If its anything like nscd on Solaris, it basically is a Naming
> Service Caching Daemon. It carries out and caches /etc/passwd,
> /etc/group file lookups. The one with Solaris is multi-threaded and
> can cache DNS lookups as well (if enabled). The Solaris version
> uses the DOORS interface to answer lookup requests. It can cache
> negative lookups as well. But, I'm not sure how much common
> functionality, if any, the glibc 2.1 nscd has with the Solaris one.
It does exactly this except that we can't use doors since it is not
officially supported. So we have to use Unix domain sockets.
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