Hello,

Patrice Dumas wrote:

>I've tested elektra on solaris 8, and I found the following:
>
>- there is no interface to /etc/fstab comparable with setmntent and friends,
>  the interface exists only for the /etc/mtab equivalent. Therefore the fstab
>  backend don't make sense on solaris 8.
>  
>
Not really a problem, libelektra-fstab is not really a usefull backend.
In fact i don't know why this one is still provided with elektra source.

>- the daemon is also unavailable, because there is no
>struct ucred (used in src/elektra/src/backends/daemon/ipc.c). I don't know
>  what should be done on solaris 8 to get the peer uid gid and pid...
>  
>
Yes, ucred is Linux specific (perhaps BSD have sort of ucred too ...).
I don't know what we can use on solaris ?

>I didn't test the experimental features, and the remaining compiled fine.
>kdb info is fine, but kdb seems to be broken:
>
>./kdb set -t dir system/sw
>kdb set: -t: Invalid Key
>kdb set: '-t': Invalid Key
>
>I can do more test if I have directions.
>  
>
Perhaps getopt, used for arguments parsing, don't have the same
behaviour on Solaris ? Perhaps adding some printf() in
parseCommandLine() could help debug.

That's really nice you could made these tests ! Did you have access to
some other plate-form ? Could be good to have a list of supported/tested
plate-form.

Regards,
Yannick.

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