[2052] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: comments on HP and BSDI problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ezra Peisach)
Mon Dec 2 08:08:32 1996
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU, epeisach@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Dec 1996 01:27:40 EST."
<199612020627.BAA12692@tertius.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 08:06:26 EST
From: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>
Sam,
it is not your fault that hpux is broken. Doug's earlier patch removed the
whole area of code becaue getutmpx did not exist there. Ted and I cooked
up a replacement on platforms that do not have that function.
Unfortunately, one some platforms (i.e. OSF and apparently now HPUX),
the ut_exit strutures differ between utmp and utmpx. I do not
know of a truly portable solution - expect detecting these screw cases
in configure and dealing with each one.
Again, this code is only used on platforms with utmpx structures, and without
getutmpx, so hopefully they are limited and becomming fewer.
Ezra
