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Re: appl/arlalib.c's arlalib_get_cred() problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Jul 2 20:38:03 1998
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Subject: Re: appl/arlalib.c's arlalib_get_cred() problems
To: assar@sics.se (Assar Westerlund)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 20:30:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jhawk@bbnplanet.com, arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se
In-Reply-To: <5ld8bofha5.fsf@assaris.sics.se> from "Assar Westerlund" at Jul 2, 98 04:40:02 pm
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> > Can't there be a better way? Like looking it up in /etc/name_to_sysnum
> > dynamically? Sure, this is less efficient than hardcoding it, but
> > isn't it "the right solution"?
>
> Could you try the following patch?
Well, I learned the hard way not to try adding system calls greater
than 255 to /etc/name_to_sysnum. Renders the machine pretty-much
unbootable, unless you're willing to hack with kadb.
This seems to work fine, but rqeuires the user to set AFS_SYCALL
to "xfs" or "afs" as appropriate; seemingly it'd be better to just
default to one.
--jhawk
