Whenever getpwnam() returns undef, $! should be set. Without properly checking $!, you will not have a way to understand what the root cause error is. There will be no way to determine whether the problem is in Perl or glibc.
Steve On Feb 18, 2008 10:54 AM, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Steve, > > No, the addsmb script is not testing the result from getpwnam(). Even if > it were, we could only generate a better error message or use the > sleep() for waiting the user to be added to /etc/passwd correctly. While > is a good programming practice to test the result from calling a > function, I believe we could do better to understand why the error is > happening before trying a hack in the Perl script. > > Unfornately I'm unable to generate a test with the Ubuntu version that > we detected the error, we will need to wait for an update from Tiago. > > > -- > Failure when using getpwnam core function from perl > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192055 > You received this bug notification because you are a bug contact for > perl in ubuntu. > -- Failure when using getpwnam core function from perl https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192055 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
