On 29 May 2011 16:35, Andrew Deason <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh, certainly. These things happen :)
>

Agreed. Just rebuilding Heimdal with the new patch now.


> > - do the semi-ugly solution an define VIOC_SYSCALL_PROC differently on
> > Hurd (see also [1], "missing _IOT" section, for an explanation of what
> > can and cannot be done in ioctl's on Hurd). I attached a new version of
> > patch 043_hurd_ioctl.
>
> Sure, it looks like that will work. From the perspective of OpenAFS and
> other AFS implementations, it is a little annoying to have to make a
> special case for Hurd for the ioctl number if and when Hurd support is
> added... but I'd expect a lot of things to require Hurd special-cases,
> anyway.
>

For references, there is also the following bug that discusses AFS with
Heimdal:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324342

and this even older bug report for The Hurd support:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=113317

Will this be sent to Heimdal upstream, btw? This probably would have
> gotten noticed sooner if this had been sent there, and I don't know if
> they have opinions on this.


Do you think The Hurd patches are of sufficient quality to be submitted
upstream?
-- 
Brian May <[email protected]>

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