Re: status

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber-eb.uni-paderborn.de>]

Hello,

> - These patches (which will be in 2.0.7) have still not been
>   integrated in glibc 2.1.  Has anybody verified that the functions
>   work now correctly if the buffers have to be enlarged?
> 
> 1998-01-19  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
> 
>         * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/gethostid.c (gethostid): Correct
>         handling of enlarging buffers (clear errno).
>         * sunrpc/clnt_simp.c (callrpc): Likewise.
>         * sunrpc/getrpcport.c (getrpcport): Likewise.
>         * sunrpc/clnt_gen.c (clnt_create): Likewise.
>         * shadow/fgetspent.c (fgetspent): Likewise.
>         * shadow/sgetspent.c (sgetspent): Likewise.
>         * pwd/fgetpwent.c (fgetpwent): Likewise.
>         * nss/getXXent.c (GETFUNC_NAME): Likewise.
>         * nss/getXXbyYY.c (FUNCTION_NAME): Likewise.
>         * inet/rexec.c (rexec): Likewise.
>         * inet/rcmd.c (rcmd): Likewise.
>         (ruserok): Likewise.
>         (__icheckhost): Likewise.
>         * grp/initgroups.c (initgroups): Likewise
>         * grp/fgetgrent.c (fgetgrent): Likewise.
>         Based on patches by Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>.

I think the last patches to the NSS modules fixes this problems. In the
moment, I couldn't reproduce problems with this any longer.

  Thorsten

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