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 -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net