On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 18:12 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 07/26/2016 04:15 PM, Richard Braun wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 03:16:36PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > > > Peculiarities: the code uses SCM_CREDS and sendmsg/recvmsg over > > > the > > > local UNIX socket to check authorization. (Since there's no man > > > page I > > > could find about it, I assume that SCM_CREDS is implemented in > > > the same > > > way that kFreeBSD does it, at least if I look at the system > > > header > > > files.) > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost certain we don't > > support > > SCM_CREDS yet. > > Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Well, hmm, if that is true, what > do I do then? It's not like there's an alternative I can use > to achieve the same thing... (Or is there?) > > FYI: the package in unstable now compiled [1], but it won't > actually work properly. > > Should I leave it at that? Or ask for removal from Hurd for > now and instead of Arch: any use Arch: linux-any kfreebsd-any? > Or leave it Arch: any but make the build explicitly fail > again? I don't really have a preference.
SCM_CREDS is supported and should work. Probably there is still something missing or not working as the kFreeBSD version does.
