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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nis/nss b/nis/nss
index 4f65f81120..b7007a6bd4 100644
--- a/nis/nss
+++ b/nis/nss
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # /etc/default/nss
 # This file can theoretically contain a bunch of customization variables
-# for Name Service Switch in the GNU C library.  For now there are only two
-# variables:
+# for Name Service Switch in the GNU C library.  For now there are only
+# three variables:
 #
 # NETID_AUTHORITATIVE
 #   If set to TRUE, the initgroups() function will accept the information
@@ -18,3 +18,11 @@
 #   primary service names and service aliases.  The system administrator
 #   has to make sure it is correctly generated.
 #SERVICES_AUTHORITATIVE=TRUE
+#
+# SETENT_BATCH_READ
+#  If set to TRUE, various setXXent() functions will read the entire
+#  database at once and then hand out the requests one by one from
+#  memory with every getXXent() call.  Otherwise each getXXent() call
+#  might result into a network communication with the server to get
+#  the next entry.
+SETENT_BATCH_READ=TRUE