On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:44:29PM -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote: > Package: perdition > Version: 1.17-7 > Severity: minor > > perdition running on a Debian NIS client bound to a SunOS 5.8 NIS/YP > server is unable to look up the real mail server to use from our > mail.aliases map. The attached patch works for me since Sun's > yp_match() RPC call apparently expects the inkeylen parameter to include > the length of the key including the terminating '\0' character, while > strlen() excludes the terminating '\0'. > > I'm not sure if all NIS servers behave this way or require this behavior > from clients, so perhaps this should be some sort of knob, but according > to my packet sniffer Python's nis.match() call always sends the > terminating '\0'.
Hi Robert, Thanks for tracking this down. I had a look around and I really can't find any documentation indicating weather strlen() or strlen() + 1 should be passed. I think that its entirely reasonable that strlen() + 1 is correct, so in lieu of any specification, I'm going to change the code as per your patch. If anyone finds documentation indicating that this is not correct, please let me know. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
