On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Ian Kent wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Ian McLeod wrote:
> > Ian,
> > 
> > As someone who has struggled with the 4.0 pre-releases for several months 
> > now, I'd certainly love to see someone take over the role of maintainer.  
> > All the better if that person happened to have the first name "Ian".  ;-)
> > 
> 
> Great. Thanks for your support.
> 
> And by coincidence my mothers maiden name is McColl.

:)

> 
> > I have also been experimenting with a few patches to the existing pre10 
> > code, mainly to deal with submounts that use NIS as the source for their 
> > maps.  I'd be very interested in hearing more about the 
> > changes/improvements you've made, both in the userspace and kernel 
> > components.
> 
> Cool.
> 
> Submounts. That's where I started. This is painful yes.
> 
> I am still testing/debugging my latest changes. I thought I was done 
> (several times now) but I am now in the hard to find and fix phase. I 
> would be happy to send you a copy of the patches if you think you would 
> find them useful and understand that they are not quite ready for 
> release. Maybe you could do a little testing in your environment to see 
> what other bugs can be driven out.

I would be very interested in these.  I consider my patches to be in a 
similar state.  They work well here, but may not be suitable for wider 
distribution just yet.

> I have in fact merged most of the Redhat v3 (from the source rpm) patches 
> not only the LDAP patch. I hope that you guys and the folks that created 
> them are not unhappy with that. There is still some more work to do on the 
> init script but I think the Redhat one is better than the original.

I can't imagine that anyone would be upset by that :).

-Ian


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