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Re: dumb question
- To: zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu (Zack Weinberg)
- Subject: Re: dumb question
- From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:01:14 +0200 (MET DST)
- Cc: kukuk@weber.uni-paderborn.de, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
Hello,
> >Zack, for what do you need struct ucred ? Are you playing with
> >__SCM_CREDENTIALS in the moment ? I have some big problems with it,
> >which I couldn't solve. If I could see code which works, maybe
> >I could find my mistake.
>
> The code I'm looking at is Alexey Kuznetsov's TLI-over-sockets
> library, which I was trying to package as a glibc addon. It was
> written to libc5 and assumes struct ucred is in sys/socket.h. I have
> no idea if the code actually works.
Hey, you are working on that ? The last 2 days I have spoken with
Alexey about this (The main reason was the keyserv interface). He told
me, that the code works with libc5 and glibc 1.99 on alpha, and that it
is very well tested and runs for a long time for him without problems.
Thorsten
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