[SSSD] [PATCH] Let the PAM client send its PID

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Sun Sep 13 13:43:13 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 12:23 +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> 
> Internally the cli_pid is always send, even if it is 0.

Yes, you are right, for a moment I confused pipe protocol with internal
dp to backend dbus protocol.
/me goes home to reconnect the brains ...

> Nevertheless,
> 
> selfNACK
> 
> I have forgotten to put the size of the cli_pid into the protocol.
> This
> might look a bit redundant, but if you have an older server and a
> newer
> client the server does not know about the cli_pid item and how large
> it
> might be. With the size it can jump to the next item on the wire and
> continue working with items it knows about.

Ok, I'll be waiting for another patch asap, I want to commit this change
the soonest.

Simo.


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