[10531] in Athena Bugs
rshd.c -r4.17, environ misdeclared
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
Thu Jun 3 18:51:29 1993
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 18:51:22 EDT
From: eichin@Athena.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-staff@Athena.MIT.EDU
% rsh charon.mit.edu printenv
HOME=/
PATH=/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin
/afs/rel-eng/project/release/current/source/athena/athena.lib/kerberos/appl/bsd/rshd.c
line 133:
char **environ;
Turns out that the Ultrix linker+libc are *way* clever... without the
extern, you actually a fresh new local variable which has *no*
connection with the "real" one. This means that rshd puts *nothing*
into the environment, so it inherits from what inetd had at boot time.
The fix is the obvious:
extern char **environ;
which is portable to all of the relevant platforms. I believe this
manifestation is only visible under MIPS Ultrix.
Alternate fix is to actually use the kerberos.p10 source instead.
_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
MIT Student Information Processing Board
Cygnus Support <eichin@cygnus.com>
