- it succeeded on non-directories (see POSIX 5.1.2.4).
- it hung on (non-open) named pipes.
- it leaked memory if the second malloc() failed.
- it didn't preserve errno across errors in close().
of the plus or minus lists at all, reject him. This lets you create
a +@netgroup list of users that you want to admit and reject everybody
else. If you end your +@netgroup list with the wildcard line
(+:::::::::) then you'll have a +@netgroup list that remaps the
specified people but leaves people not in any netgroup unaffected.
link stage fell over for any program that attempted to use rexec().
Ruserpass() remains undocumented; i could not find any documentation
for it on other systems.
Also added a BUGS section to the man page, stating that this function
constitutes a potential security hole (as well as the underlying
"exec" service).
Submitted by: rgrimes
Originally submitted by: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks)
Obtained from: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG
o add missing man pages
o make all man pages clearly refer to the libcompat thingie
o add the information to the vtimes(3) and vlimit(3) man pages
that nobody has reimplemented the functions by now
o add the missing getpw.c
o add code and man pages for cftime(3) and
ascftime(3) -- i found them somewhere in old
unfinished work
where one or more of the non-default domains are not yet bound.
If we make a YP request for a domain other than the default domain,
and there is no binding for the new domain yet, _yp_dobind() sees
that the /var/yp/binding/DOMAIN.VERS file for the unbound domain is
not locked (by ypbind) and from this it concludes that the NIS system
is dead, so it gives up.
This behavior has been changed: before giving up in this case, we now
make a second check to see if the binding file for the *default* domain
is also not locked. Only if the default domain binding file is also
unlocked to we now assume that ypbind has bought the farm and bail out.
(Note: this assumes that the user hasn't changed the default domain
while ypbind is running.)
With this change, _do_ypbind() is allowed to proceed into the next
section of code wherein it prods ypbind into establishing a binding
for the new domain. This first call times out after ten seconds,
after which it should retry and succeed. From then on, the binding
for the second domain should be handled normally.
Second part of update to fdlibm 5.2: speed up argument reduction for trig
functions in the case pi/4 < |x| < 3pi/4.
Remove unused static constants ("one").
isctype.c:
o The tolower() and toupper() functions duplicated too much code
and were out of date (surprise). This didn't matter because
it was difficult to call them.
o Change formatting to be more like that in <ctype.h> (with
extra parentheses as in the macros). Perhaps this file should
be machine generated or everything should be handled like
__tolower() so that no code is repeated.
nomacros.c:
o Instead of looking at _USE_CTYPE_INLINE_ to see what <ctype.h>
has done, set _EXTERNALIZE_CTYPE_INLINES_ to tell <ctype.h>
what to do, so that we don't have anything left to do. Note
that code is now generated even if inlines are used by default.
This allows users to switch to non-inline versions.
select() returns EINVAL if you try to feed it a value of FD_SETSIZE greater
that 256. You can apparently adjust this by specifying a larger value of
FD_SETSIZE when configuring your kernel. However, if you set the maximum
number of open file descriptors per process to some value greater than
the FD_SETSIZE value that select() expects, many selects() within the RPC
library code will be botched because _rpc_dtablesize() will return
invalid numbers. This is to say that it will return the upper descriptor
table size limit which can be much higher than 256. Unless select() is
prepared to expect this 'unusually' high value, it will fail. (A good
example of this can be seen with NIS enabled: if you type 'unlimit' at
the shell prompt and then run any command that does NIS calls, you'll
be bombarded with errors from clnttcp_create().)
A temporary fix for this is to clamp the value returned by _rpc_dtablesize()
at FD_SETSIZE (as defined in <sys/types.h> (256)). I suppose the Right
Thing would be to provide some mechanism for select() to dynamically
adjust itself to handle FD_SETSIZE values larger than 256, but it's a
bit late in the game for that. Hopefully 256 file descriptors will be enough
to keep RPC happy for now.
add #includes for YP headers when compiling with -DYP to avoid some implicit
declarations.
getgrent.c & getnetgrent.c: add some #includes to avoid implicit declarations
of YP functions.
Obtained from: Casper H. Dik (by vay of Usenet)
Small patch to help improve NIS rebinding times (among other things):
>From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
>Subject: FIX for slow rebinding of NIS.
>Summary: a small change in libc makes life with NIS a lot easier.
>Message-ID: <1992Jan17.173905.11727@fwi.uva.nl>
>Date: 17 Jan 92 17:39:05 GMT
>Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl
>Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
>Lines: 138
>Nntp-Posting-Host: halo.fwi.uva.nl
Have you been plagued by long waits when your NIS server is rebooted?
READ ON!
Sun has a patch, but the README says:
********************* WARNING ******************************
This is a new version of ypbind that never uses the NIS
binding file to cache the servers binding. This will have
the effect of fixing the current symptom. However, it might
degrade the overall performance of the system when the
server is available. This is most likely to happen on an
overloaded server, which will cause the network to produce
a broadcast storm.
*************************************************************
Therefor, I have produced another fix.
o What goes wrong.
When the NIS server is rebooted, ypserv will obtain different ports
to listen for RPC requests. All clients will continue to use the old
binding they obtained earlier. The NIS server will send ICMP dst unreachable
messages for the RPC requests that arrive at the old port. These ICMPs
are dropped on the floor and the client code will continue sending the
requests until the timer has expired. The small fix at the end of this
message will pick up these ICMP messages and deliver them to the RPC layer.
o Before and after.
I've tested this on some machines and this is the result:
(kill and restart ypserv on the server)
original% time ypmatch user passwd
user:....
0.040u 0.090s 2:35.64 0.0% 0+126k 0+0io 0pf+0w (155 seconds elapsed time)
fixedhost% time ypmatch user passwd
user:....
0.050u 0.050s 0:10.20 0.9% 0+136k 0+0io 0pf+0w (10 seconds elapsed time)
Rebinding is almost instantaneous.
o Other benefits.
RPC calls that use UDP as transport will no longer time out but
will abort much sooner. (E.g., the remote host is unreachable or
111/udp is filtered by an intermediate router)
Grrr. If the dbhash routines weren't grossly overengineered I wouldn't
even need to do this! :-(
Also now export the hash_stats routine. Manpage coming RSN - I promise.
Forms now have their own local bindings table so that anything
declared within a form is local to that form. This means you can
have fields of the same name in different forms.
Added inlined attribute setting for strings e.g. "This is \bold bold"
Added entry and exit functions for fields.
1) Eliminate spaces and double ':'.
2) Remove duplicated capabilities from tc= expansion.
It is needed to not overflow historycal 1024 limit.
Add range check and return -1 if entry is too big instead
of corrupting user memory.
Make sure all arguments to the yp_*() functions are valid before sending
them off to the server. This is somewhat distressing: once again my
FreeBSD box brought down my entire network because of NIS bogosities.
I *think* the poor argument checking in this module is the cause, but
I still haven't been able to reproduce the exact series of events that
lead to the ypserv crashes. For now I've resorted to sticking my FreeBSD
box in a seprate domain. Hopefully a weekend of heavy testing will
uncover the problem.
