nixos/nscd: no longer need to wait for readiness

This postStart step was introduced on 2014-04-24 with the comment that
"Nscd forks into the background before it's ready to accept
connections."

However, that was fixed upstream almost two months earlier, on
2014-03-03, with the comment that "This, along with setting the nscd
service type to forking in its systemd configuration file, allows
systemd to be certain that the nscd service is ready and is accepting
connections."

The fix was released several months later in glibc 2.20, which was
merged in NixOS sometime before 15.09, so it certainly should be safe to
remove this workaround by now.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/system/nscd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/system/nscd.nix
index fd1570d1198..d9444a279ea 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/system/nscd.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/system/nscd.nix
@@ -75,15 +75,6 @@ in
                 "${pkgs.glibc.bin}/sbin/nscd --invalidate hosts"
               ];
           };
-
-        # Urgggggh... Nscd forks before opening its socket and writing
-        # its pid. So wait until it's ready.
-        postStart =
-          ''
-            while ! ${pkgs.glibc.bin}/sbin/nscd -g > /dev/null; do
-              sleep 0.2
-            done
-          '';
       };
 
   };