Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:30:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/27230: Users after NIS lines in /etc/passwd Message-ID: <200105110330.f4B3U3504893@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/27230; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To: Thomas Quinot <quinot@inf.enst.fr>
Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>,
FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/27230: Users after NIS lines in /etc/passwd
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:27:32 -0700
Thomas Quinot <quinot@inf.enst.fr> writes:
> Le 2001-05-10, Dima Dorfman écrivait :
>
> > > No, NS_UNAVAIL _should_ short-circuit like this. I'll look for a bug
> > > in __getpwcompat that returns NS_UNAVAIL inappropriately.
> > In this case, it gets returned here:
> >
> > if(__ypdomain == NULL) {
> > if(_yp_check(&__ypdomain) == 0)
> > return NS_UNAVAIL;
> > }
> >
> > line 512, rev. 1.59 of getpwent.c.
>
> As I understand it, your patch and/or changing the returned value would
> resolve the faulty 'no such user' error, but not the 75-second hang
> that is experienced when rpcbind is not running.
I don't think that's a bug. It's the nature of NIS; it should wait in
hopes of the server responding. Perhaps the bug is that it doesn't
wait when rpcbind is running but ypbind isn't.
>
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