That will be a cool solution. I will take a look at it.

- Ranjit

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 2:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: P Ranjit Kumar; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Samba 3.0 Alpha 21 - TZ environment variable.


On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:04:12PM -0800, P Ranjit Kumar wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Samba 3.0 Alpha21 tries to emulate the timegm() call. When it does that,
it
> > sets the TZ="" before it invokes the mktime() call. However, on HP-UX,
> > setting TZ="" makes the timezone to be EST but what we want is GMT for
> > time_t computation. This results in Samba failing to a join a domain.
>
> Adding platform specific code (like #ifdef HPUX) isn't something we
> want to move towards. Does HPUX not have timegm ? If not, can you
> work out a feature test patch that fixes it for HPUX rather than
> a platform specific one ?

Tridge's timegm() replacement doesn't use TZ any more, and has been
merged into Samba 3.0, for the next alpha.

Andrew Bartlett

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