retitle 92186 libc6: getpwnam(3) should distinguish between NIS errors and user not 
found
close 239011
quit

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:25:25AM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> 
> I've built a testcase for looking at this.  When I run it, I get:
> 
> ./a.out
> No match found!  Errno: 0
> 
> Can you please provide a better testcase?  Otherwise, I'll assume the
> bug is fixed and close it (By the end of January or so)

Well yes that's good.  However, it is also setting errno to zero when
the NIS server is unavilable.  This means that the application still
can't distinguish between the two errors.

Thanks,
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