Volker Lendecke írta: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:41:06PM +0200, Gémes Géza wrote: > >> I've built up a patch (attachment 3658 to bug 5799 on samba bugzilla) >> which makes fake-kaserver and vfs-afsacl work again. >> But the patched configure makes smbd, net and maybe other binaries link >> with libsys.a in order to communicate with the openafs kernel code. The >> question is what are the legal consequences, are the binaries >> distributable et all? >> > > At the time I wrote the fake kaserver stuff I had the same > concerns and thus did a fresh implementation of the ticket > generation and syscall wrappers. Can't you do the same with > the proc_afs_syscall thing? This can't be much code. > > Volker > Unfortunately this time it seems to be a lot harder, the main change being at least to my understanding, the fact that the openafs kernel module doesn't advertise its services as a system call, and thus we cannot link with just libc code which calls into the kernel, but need to explicitly use openafs calls for the same propose resulting in a need to link to their code. Hope is not lost totally yet as I've read about some work of developing a GPL licensed kernel module, and then we could use some glue code from there.
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