Re: fixes for getpeercred.c

[Brett Lymn <blymn [at] internode.on.net>]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 10:25:11PM +0200, Arthur de Jong wrote:
> 
> Thanks, I've applied the fix as
> https://arthurdejong.org/git/nss-pam-ldapd/commit/?id=e9662f1
> 

Thanks.  There are a few more changes before we can compile cleanly on
NetbSD, I have a proposal in to import the FreeBSD nss compat headers so
we should just be able to use the FreeBSD style compat layer.

> 
> The pointers to stack allocated variables are only passed to
> getpeereid() and are not returned by getpeercred(). They are only there
> to ensure that getpeereid() is not called with NULL pointers.
> 

Ah yes, you are correct.  Seeing the addresses of stack variables
assigned to function parameters made me a bit twitchy.

On another topic, can I gently prod about the change proposal I posted a
while ago?  I am happy to do the work but it is important to me that the
changes are incorportated into this project.

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