[3854] in Kerberos
Re: v5srvtab lossage ... anyone seen this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Sat Sep 17 18:07:54 1994
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 17:52:14 -0400
To: jgm+@CMU.EDU
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU, hobbit@elf.com
In-Reply-To: John Gardiner Myers's message of Fri, 16 Sep 1994 11:59:53 -0400 <giSQ3tO00WBw4Lhtt8@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
>Many Unix versions of fopen stop parsing on the "b" because they don't
>know about it, binary mode being meaningless on unix. If fopen stops
>parsing on the 'b' and misses the '+', the file won't be opened for
>writing and the fcntl lock attempt will fail.
We discovered that bug a while ago. The test for ANSI_STDIO now does
a run-check to ensure that "rb+" works with fopen(). The current
release (beta 4 patch 2) should have this fix installed.
---Tom
