kafs.h from heimdal or from arla

[Love]

Rasmus Kaj <kaj at kth.se> writes:

> Am I the only one who has the problem that #include <kafs.h> in the
> arla sources gets a kafs.h that was installed by heimdal rather than
> by arla, and which lacks some symbols (the first that the complier
> complains about is VIOCNOP).
>
> I can think of three obvious solutions for this:
>
>  1) Add a file kafs-arla.h which is included right after kafs.h and
>     checks if some definitions are missing and then adds them.
>   + Relatively simple, especially since the missing things is macros.
>   - Rather ugly.

yes, please go ahead.

>  2) Update the kafs.h in heimdal to include everything that arla
>     needs.
>   + Simple.
>   - Long turn-around time, since it not a solution before the next
>     release of heimdal.  What about next time?

no

>  3) Remove kafs.h and the entire libkafs from heimdal.  This requires
>     some kind of plugin architecture, so kauth can still create afs
>     keys for the user.
>   + Theoretically pleasing.
>   - Requires quite a lot of work.

no.

Love


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