stripping xfs.o module stops it working on Linux

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 16 Jun 2000, Assar Westerlund wrote:

> "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> writes:
> > On that subject, Nat Lanza gave me some modified patches -- he claimed mine 
> > didn't work for him because they passed NULL/0 to k_afslog_uid().  But in 
> > every version of kth-krb I've used, k_afslog_uid() uses defaults... I'm 
> > guessing he was using the local -lkrbafs code and it doesn't do defaults (I 
> > haven't looked at or used it; unlike CS, we've never needed it).  Thus, a 
> > new aklog patch will be forthcoming.
> 
> As far as I can tell, all versions of k_afslog_uid have accepted cell
> == NULL and realm == NULL.  On the other hand, I know that the krbafs
> code is rather old and hasn't been updated by its lazy maintainter.

Actually, at this point I'd like to get rid of it and try to get people to
just use kth-krb. The problem is there are still sites like CMU SCS who
refuse to run anything recent.

> (I guess the real answer is to try to make a separate distribution out
> of libkafs (but that's work - best left to somebody else) or make the
> world see the true light and only run the code I say they should :-)

-D