[2506] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: krb5-doc/213: document libc and gssrpc incompatability with regard to NIS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Mon Nov 25 11:15:15 1996
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>, hartmans@MIT.EDU, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU,
krb5-prs@RT-11.MIT.EDU
From: mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Date: 25 Nov 1996 11:14:34 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o"'s message of Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:44:21 -0500
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:00:30 -0500
> From: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
>
> There has been some debate over whether this namespace collision will
> cause us to hold up the release.
>
> We should probably decide on this soon.
>
> Would anyone like to symmarize the case why it *should* cause us to hold
> up the release?
>
> The alternative is to document that if you have a static libc which has
> NIS, you should configure --with-netlibs=resolv where libresolv.a is a
> resolver library that doesn't have any of the NIS/YP crap in it....
Because it's bloody stupid to have to replace the resolver? krb5 is
practically its own OS already.
