[OpenAFS-devel] Solaris afs.rc file damage

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:16:46 -0700


Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:

> Heimdal's libkafs actually has some syscall probing code which is
> license-compatible, but it's userspace: it probes to see if our system
> call is installed.

Syscall probing on AIX requires building a separate dynamic object and
attempting a dlopen equivalent at runtime, which is the part of the
libkafs code that's particularly scary.  Other platforms require at most
messing with signal handlers.

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