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From: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Tiny bug in lockd.  Dies if hostname too long.
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.160851.2846@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 90 16:08:51 GMT
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Reply-To: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
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I just installed a new cluster of 3100s and a 5400 as its server.
I had to modify the source for lockd to make it work.

The problem with lockd was that in prot_libr.c the buffer
hostname was limited to 20 characters (line 37 3.1c source)
and the same for gethostname() function (line 73).  When I
doubled these sizes, everything worked.  All of our hostnames
have .Stanford.EDU at their end .

Is this problem fixed in 4.0 ?  

Ultrix is not the only OS.  We discoverd this problem in Sun OS
too (I do not know about their 4.1 yet) .



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