[krbdev.mit.edu #3122] KRB 1.4.1 AIX 5.2 fixes

Russ Allbery via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Fri Jul 15 17:33:37 EDT 2005


Jonathan Chen via RT <rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

> Due to all the wonderful "features" of AIX, Kerberos doesn't work well
> on AIX 5.2.  The following patch attempts to fix some of the issues:

>  - the select() API in AIX is unusual.  The 16 high bits of the first 
>    argument is special, so select(0x00010000, ...) doesn't work.  Since 
>    8*sizeof(fd_set) == 0x10000 is used as the first argument in serveral 
>    places, things break.

Even with these patches applied, I still get:

This rlogin session is encrypting all data transmissions.
klogind: select: Bad file number.
Connection closed.

from klogind on AIX 5.2.  Is this the same problem that this patch is
trying to fix?  If so, do you have an idea as to why it might still not be
working?

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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