[1353] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
krb5 B4.3 problems with sunos 4.1.3 tmpfs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
Mon May 1 11:52:50 1995
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 08:52:23 -0700
From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
version and os:
krb5 B4.3
sunos 4.1.3
/tmp is a tmpfs
problem:
$ kinit wolfgang
kinit: Invalid argument when initializing cache
explaination:
Sunos 4.1.3 doesn't implement locks on tmpfs filesystems. The
fcntl(fd, F_SETLK) call is failing. This is clearly a sunos bug, not
a krb bug.
The krb bug is that:
1) there is no simple way to either turn off locks (I
certainly would rather have the file written, without locks then have
krb bail out because lock call fails).
2) there is no simple way to change all the references to the
krb "/tmp" directory to point elsewhere. There are half a dozen
"/tmp" strings hardwired in the code.
-wolfgang
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Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com> <http://www.wsrcc.com/>
