14 Feb
2007
14 Feb
'07
6:53 p.m.
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 17:05 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
The other important concern for a portable software as dovecot is portability. On some systems, temporary failure of getpwnam() is indistinguishable from permanent failure, thus the only solution to this approach is Postfix's: implement a NIS lookup client to access the password database to circumvent the many libc bugs lurking there.
This is interesting. I hadn't thought about this before. Is it really possible to write that portably? Guess I'll have to look at Postfix's implementation some day.