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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-04-05 01:26:47 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-04-05 01:26:47 +0000
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1997-04-05 03:11  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* inet/arpa/inet.h: Rewrite.  Don't use the ugly BSD way to write
	headers but instead add comments and parameter names.
	Don't use BSD specific types in prototypes.

	* manual/nss.texi: Correct a few typos and errors.

	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_cbrt.c: Complete rewrite based on better
	algorithm.
	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_cbrtf.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_cbrtl.c: Likewise.

	* sysdeps/libm-i387/s_cbrt.S: New file.  Optimized assembler version
	with new algorithm.
	* sysdeps/libm-i387/s_cbrtf.S: New file.
	* sysdeps/libm-i387/s_cbrtl.S: New file.

	* sysdeps/libm-i387/s_frexp.S: Optimize even more.
	* sysdeps/libm-i387/s_frexpf.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/libm-i387/s_frexpl.S: Likewise.

1997-04-04 18:55  Thorsten Kukuk  <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>

	* nis/Makefile: Remove CFLAGS-*, add publickey to databases.

	* nis/nis_call.c: Add MASTER_ONLY and HARD_LOOKUP flags, compile
	DES part only with secure RPC add-on.

	* nis/nis_names.c (nis_modify): Fix rpc function number.

	* nis/nis_server.c: Fix typos.

	* nis/nss_compat/compat-grp.c: Add NIS+ support.
	* nis/nss_compat/compat-pwd.c: Likewise.
	* nis/nss_compat/compat-spwd.c: Likewise.

	* nis/nss_nis/nis-grp.c: Only a return value > 0 from parse_line
	signals success.

	* nis/nss_nis/nis-publickey.c: Changes for compiling with/without
	secure RPC.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-publickey.c: Likewise.
	* nis/ypclnt.c: Likewise.
	* nis/nis_intern.h: Likewise.

	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-alias.c: Correct parser return code.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-ethers.c: Likewise.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-hosts.c: Likewise.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-network.c: Likewise.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-proto.c: Likewise.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-pwd.c: Likewise.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-rpc.c: Likewise.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-service.c: Likewise.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-spwd.c: Likewise.

	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-grp.c: Rewrite parser for fixing errors
	and speedup.
	* nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-netgrp.c: Likewise.

1997-04-04 17:03  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* math/libm-test.c (cbrt_test): Add tests for +-inf and NaN
	arguments.

1997-04-03 19:24  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigset.h (__sigisemptyset): Fix a
	typo.

1997-04-03 16:10  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.pfalz.de>

	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_nanf.c:
	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_nan.c:
	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_nanl.c: Include <stdio.h> for
	declaration of sprintf.

1997-04-03 13:37  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_cexp.c: Fix type: string_alias ->
	strong_alias.
	Reported by sun <asun@zoology.washington.edu>.

	* rpc/auth.h: Removed.
	* rpc/auth_des.h: Removed.
	* sunrpc/rpc/auth.h: Moved to ...
	* sysdeps/generic/rpc/auth.h: ...here.
	* sunrpc/rpc/auth_des.h: Moved to ...
	* sysdeps/generic/rpc/auth_des.h: ...here.

1997-04-03 04:28  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/libm-i387/s_frexp.S: New file.  ix87 optimized version.
	* sysdeps/libm-i387/s_frexpf.S: New file.
	* sysdeps/libm-i387/s_frexpl.S: New file.

1997-04-01 10:11  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile [$(subdir)=inet]
	(sysdep_headers): Remove netinet/icmp.h.

	Describe `inf', `infinity', `nan', `nan(...)' inputs for strtod
	* sysdeps/i386/memcmp.S: Likewise.
	* time/antarctica: Likewise.
	* time/australasia: Likewise.
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@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ please let me know.
 
 [Q23]	``When compiling GNU libc I get lots of errors saying functions
 	  in glibc are duplicated in libgcc.''
+
+[Q24]	``I have set up /etc/nis.conf, and the Linux libc 5 with NYS
+	  works great.  But the glibc NIS+ doesn't seem to work.''
 
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 [Q1]	``What systems does the GNU C Library run on?''
@@ -674,6 +677,21 @@ you first delete config.cache.
 some problems of this kind.  The setting of CFLAGS is checked at the
 very beginning and if it is not usable `configure' will bark.
 
+
+
+~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
+[Q24]	``I have set up /etc/nis.conf, and the Linux libc 5 with NYS
+	  works great.  But the glibc NIS+ doesn't seem to work.''
+
+[A24]	The glibc NIS+ implementation uses a /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START
+	file for storing information about the NIS+ server and their
+	public keys, because the nis.conf file do not contain all
+	necessary information.  You have to copy a NIS_COLD_START file
+	from a Solaris client (the NIS_COLD_START file is byte order
+	independend) or generate it new with nisinit from the nis-tools
+	(look at http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html).
+
+
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