lianep at eng.sun.com wrote:
> Roland Mainz writes:
> > If you're asking for a "test suite" for |libc::wordexp()|: glibc has one
> > and April has another set of tests. But the more important issue is that
> > it works propperly with SMF. This is the real "trap" where the various
> > OpenSolaris distributions are suffering from and that's why we have it
> > in the tree (and SMF is the only consumer of |libc::wordexp()| in
> > Solaris and Google codesearch lists lots of implementations but no
> > users...).
> 
> So that I'm clear on what you're describing, you're specifically talking
> about "inetd" when you say "SMF", right?

Yes... I was thinking about the inetd parts of SMF. The problem is that
crashing this part will decapitate the whole SMF system and recovery
from that appears to be tricky (I used VMware's "snapshot" feature to
roll-back such accidents but I doubt that many developers have the money
for a VMware license and SPARC does not have something like that at all
(except using a diskless setup where all the data are on the NFS server
and can be fixed while the wrecked OS is offline) ...).

> As a note, looks like dhcpmgr also uses it.
> http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/cmd-inet/usr.sadm/dhcpmgr/lib/service.c#682

Uhm... Ok... that's new for me... ;-(
... thanks for the pointer... :-)

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Bye,
Roland

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