Kris,
I guess once this is committed, the patch I sent you for ssh will no
longer be necessary.
To the cc list: My patch just told ssh to
xstrdup(pw_class ? pw_class : "")
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 11:43:01PM +0900, Seigo Tanimura wrote:
> > As we are supposed to fill in all of the members in struct passwd
> > (like Solaris), _pw_passwd should have its initial value other than
> > zero.
> >
> > static struct passwd _pw_passwd =
> > {
> > "",
> > "",
> > (uid_t)0, /* XXX Is zero appropriate? */
> > (gid_t)0,
> > (time_t)0,
> > "",
> > "",
> > "",
> > "",
> > (time_t)0,
> > 0,
> > };
>
> I agree -- it bit me while working on some additional nsswitch
> backends. Using a pointer to an empty string would be more safe. As
> to the XXX comment, those fields have been 0 forever, no point in
> changing them now. Unless objections come up, I'll commit this change
> or something similar with the next nsswitch commit.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion!
> --
> Jacques Vidrine / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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