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Re: open-isns porting question: sudden SIGLOST



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.


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