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afs_strerror()?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Jun 21 05:03:18 1998
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Subject: afs_strerror()?
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
I'm sort of wondering if we should have one.
Or perhaps an rx_strerror().
Because I haven't gone and followed up on Assar's
suggestions:
| It would seem to me that you need to fix all the arlalib_* functions
| to take the cell as an argument.
(I'll try to do it today), pts on the athena cell doesn't work:
> ./pts mem jhawk
mem: pts: pts_name_to_id(..) returned 19270408
Of course, this is
include/rxkad.h:#define RXKADUNKNOWNKEY (19270408L)
But the pts code just does:
if(res != 0) {
if(res == PRPERM) {
if(id == ANONYMOUSID) /* this sucks */
errx(1, "pts: User or group doesn't exist so couldn't"
"look up id for %s (id: %d)", name, id);
else
errx(1, "pts: Permission denied ; unable to get "
"membership of %s (id: %d)", name, id);
}
else if(res == PRNOENT)
errx(1, "pts: User or group doesn't exist so couldn't look up"
"id for %s (id: %d)", name, id);
else
errx(1, "pts: PR_ListElements(..) returned %d", res);
}
which is clearly insufficient since all sorts of errors
could pop up.
An rx_strerror() seems like it'd be the right thing here.
Concurrance? Disagreement?
Thanks.
--jhawk
