[OpenAFS-devel] Re: OpenAFS and glibc-2.2

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:38:00 -0500 (EST)


On 26 Mar 2001, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Is this problem only happening on Linux 2.4-based systems?  One
> potential problem is that I don't believe OpenAFS supports the
> (new-to-Linux-2.4) setgroups32() syscall.  I've been told that one
> difference between glibc 2.1 and 2.2 is the change to use
> setgroups32() if it exists.  So if AFS doesn't hook that, you will see
> this behavior.

It currently hooks that only on sparc64; If a patch to implement hooking
it for other cases isn't forthcoming then when it comes time to prepare
OpenAFS 1.0.4 I will implement it. 

-D