[krbdev.mit.edu #2914] size change in cache breaks alpha-dux40 for krb5-1.3, krb5-1.4

[Quanah Gibson-Mount via RT]

--On Friday, February 04, 2005 6:55 PM -0500 Ken Raeburn via RT 
<rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu> wrote:

> In the 1.2.7 sources I have lying around, and a 1.2.8 tree I just
> checked out, the last thing written to the file by tf_save_cred in
> lib/krb4/tf_util.c is one of the arguments declared "long issue_date",
> and written using sizeof(long).  So I'm surprised that last field looks
> like a four-byte timestamp.

Ken,

My 1.2.8 tree doesn't agree with you then.

In diff'ing 1.2.8 with 1.3.6, I find:

527c519
<     KRB4_32 issue_date;
---
>     long issue_date;

I bet on alpha this changed the size somehow.

I'll poke further at that.

--Quanah

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