[1642] in testers
Speaking about surprise changes in 7.3......
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jul 30 23:11:29 1991
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 23:11:31 -0400
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Kerberos old-style compatibility was turned off in release 7.3. This
means that it is no longer possible to rlogin to machines running
(fairly old) rlogind's. This could be pretty surprising to some
professor who might be running a machine with old Kerberos software. At
the very least, this must be documented.
Another Kerberos compatibility which was turned off was the existence of
init_krb_err_tbl (now initialize_krb_error_table) and krb_err_base (now
defined in krb_err.h as ERROR_TABLE_BASE_krb) in libkrb.a. Also a big
surprise if you try to compile code in 7.3 which is still using the old
calls. At the very least, this must be documented in the release notes,
and I'm not completely convenced (although someone can try) that these
changes (especially the latter) do not fall into the category of
surprises that we presumably should not exist in this "bug-fix" release.
- Ted
P.S. The code which was I was trying to compile (and which was
breaking) was the discuss sources...... presumably this was fixed in the
Athena source tree when discuss was integrated into it, though.
