Re: lib/46111: yplib will hang forever if no server can be found

[Wolfgang Stukenbrock <Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/46111; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Stukenbrock <Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/46111: yplib will hang forever if no server can be found
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:59:03 +0100

 Hi,
 
 I've no problem with such a sollution.
 At least "my" application will have no problem with setting a global 
 variable in the library to an other value.
 
 Any suggestions about a name for this.
 I can prepare a patch to the libs and the manual pages then.
 
 best regards
 
 W. Stukenbrock
 
 Christos Zoulas wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR lib/46111; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 >      gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: lib/46111: yplib will hang forever if no server can be found
 > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:40:45 -0500
 > 
 >  On Feb 28,  4:20pm, Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost 
 > (Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost) wrote:
 >  -- Subject: lib/46111: yplib will hang forever if no server can be found
 >  
 >  |   The original yplib.c from Sun has a bug that it will hang forever
 >  |   in some situations, if no yp-server can be found.
 >  
 >  Yes, I think that this was done by design. Back when I was at school,
 >  we had 1 yp server and many clients. When the server crashed, people
 >  tended to reboot their workstations which would then come back up before
 >  the server finished fsck, thus not finding any nis server. When ypbind
 >  tried to start, they would hang and wait saying:
 >  
 >      'yp server not responding; still trying'
 >  
 >  instead of letting it fail and proceeding. This behavior was useful,
 >  because most of the user and group database was not stored locally,
 >  so coming up multi-user without it would require a reboot anyway.
 >  
 >  All these have changed right now, but I would prefer to make such a change
 >  in a compatible way, letting the program choose its behavior with a flag
 >  or some configuration file.
 >  
 >  christos
 >  
 > 
 
 
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