Henrik Lynggaard wrote: > 2008/9/11 Peter Shoults <Peter.Shoults at sun.com>: > >> Henrik wrote: >> >>> or is the issues fixed in some other way ? >>> -- >>> >>> >> Yes - it is fixed a different way. The key CR that you need to know about >> is CR 1085341. This fixed the fopen issue in opensolaris as well as in >> Solaris 10. What it did is add new functionality to fopen() to allow it to >> be able to handle more than 255 file descriptors. >> However, with this change in place, the code using fopen had to be modified >> very slightly in order for it to be able to pick up this new functionality >> and be able to fopen beyond 255 file descriptors. The way you tell fopen to >> go beyond 255 file descriptors is to use a new mode, "F". The "F" mode says >> use the new functionality that CR 1085341 added. >> >> You can see in the files mentioned above that there is a "F" mode. So, the >> fix is in place. >> > > Ah okay... given the bug description I was looking for removals of the > fopen calls, and didn't notice the mode string changes ;-) > > Thanx for pointing those out... > > I am not very familiar with Solaris administration, so could you tell > me what I can use the CR number for ? >
That is the bug number, you can search sunsolve.sun.com for it. > Do you have any idea if this fix can be "installed" on a solaris 9 ? > can I e.g. take the fixed stidio (libc ?) and the kerberos library and > install on Solaris 9 ? > Absolutely not....the changes in Solaris in 10 allowed for the fix to 1085341. Solaris 9 has no support for that. > Is this fix something that will make its way into the MIT kerberos ? I > have tried goggling for any backport/upstream fix, but found nothing > so far > I do not know....doubt it though as it required the underlying support of the OS. That is something that would have to be brought up with them. > best regards > Henrik > _______________________________________________ > kerberos-discuss mailing list > kerberos-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/kerberos-discuss >
