Re: kern/37962: libkvm is busted due to kauth_cred redefinition

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/37962; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/37962: libkvm is busted due to kauth_cred redefinition 
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:47:11 +1100

 ad%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > >Number:         37962
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       libkvm is busted due to kauth_cred redefinition
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    kern-bug-people
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 05 15:30:00 +0000 2008
 > >Originator:     Andrew Doran
 > >Release:        4.99.52
 > >Organization:
 > The NetBSD Project
 > >Environment:
 > n/a
 > >Description:
 > libkvm has a private, dup definition of kauth_cred and this is 
 > out of sync with the kernel.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Code inspection.
 > >Fix:
 > Share definition of struct kauth_cred between kernel and kmem grovellers.
 
 This does seem like a very good reason to keep this structure in a
 private shared header file somewhere...
 
 Simon.