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

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

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

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>
To: Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: kern/37962: libkvm is busted due to kauth_cred redefinition 
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:49:27 -0800

 Agree 100%.
 
 -- thorpej@iPhone
 
 On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
 
 > 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.