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From: lee@doc.cs.unm.edu (Lee Ward)
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Subject: Re: strange nfs/yp/filec bug
Keywords: Software
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Date: 11 Mar 89 03:03:30 GMT
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In article <8901120433.AA00448@helios.ee.lbl.gov> leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) writes:
>The csh file completion problem Tom Gorodecki mentions was recently
>discussed by Alexander Dupuy. The problem is that the yp code in
>gethostbyname() and friends is broken...

It's worse than that. A better fix is to go into
.../src/lib/libc/yp/yp_bind.c and get rid of the function newborn() and
all calls to it. The routines that worry about inherited file descriptors
take care to make sure that what they think is the connection to the
binder, in fact is. If not, they will rebind. So, newborn() is redundant.
This way you don't have to keep rebinding in the shell as well.

	--Lee (Ward)