From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 1 13:07:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03445 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 13:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03427 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 13:07:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA10537; Mon, 1 Jul 1996 16:06:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 16:06:49 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9607012006.AA10537@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Nate Williams Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compile_et & mk_cmds? In-Reply-To: <199607011930.NAA10874@rocky.mt.sri.com> References: <199607010418.WAA08199@rocky.mt.sri.com> <9607011827.AA09845@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199607011842.MAA10492@rocky.mt.sri.com> <9607011927.AA06982@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199607011930.NAA10874@rocky.mt.sri.com> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: >> > Is it used at all by FreeBSD? >> >> Yes. WTF do you think it's there? >> > Which programs use it? At the moment, libcom_err and libss are used by the `kadmin' facility. It is also possible to use libcom_err with Kerberos itself (there are hooks in libkrb for that purpose, or at least there were last time I touched it). There are other third-party subsystems that use it (such as Kerberos v5, Zephyr, and my little integrated-services-object-format library that will find its way into FreeBSD in the mid- to long-term future). It's a very useful facility. I have been comtemplating extending the err(3) interface to provide Common Error entry-points in addition to the usual `errno' entry points. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant