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Re: Kerberos 5 Beta4.1 port diffs for HP-UX 9.03

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Brezak)
Fri Jul 15 16:32:15 1994

To: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU, sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jul 1994 14:53:58 EDT."
             <9407151853.AA14236@tsx-11.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 16:31:06 -0400
From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>

> Looking over the change, I just wanted to make one note for everyone's
> benefit.  In general, I prefer using the POSIX function by default, and
> providing an emulation for the POSIX function if it does not exist,
> instead of vice versa.  So instead of using your patches to provide an
> emulation for utime() from utimes(), I've recoded the relevant files to
> use utime() instead directly.  These days, just about everything
> supports the POSIX functions --- and if some ancient operating system
> still doesn't, we'll provide an emulation function in lib/krb5/posix.
> 
> 						- Ted
> 
Fine with me. Thanx.


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