Re: mail.local NSS awareness

To: Luke Mewburn <lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: mail.local NSS awareness
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:59:31 +0000

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 08:25:41PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> POSIX doesn't document that getpwnam() can fail with EAGAIN or ETIMEDOUT;
> I think you'd be relying upon implementation-specific values.

Thinking twice about it: NetBSD's getpwnam() already sets errno to EAGAIN 
or ETIMEDOUT. Why couldn't NetBSD's mail.local rely on NetBSD's specific
implementation of getpwnam()?

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost

References:
- mail.local NSS awareness
  - From: Emmanuel Dreyfus
- Re: mail.local NSS awareness
  - From: Luke Mewburn

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