is smbrun(1) used anymore?

Gerald W. Carter cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Wed Jun 2 13:54:06 GMT 1999


Morgan Hughes wrote:
> 
> Looking at the code in lib/smbrun.c suggests that 
> the smbrun wrapper program is a vestigal organ...  
> Can anyone confirm this?  I've been having trouble 
> with preexec and postexec (root and non), and the debug
> code I added to the wrapper never runs...  In 
> lib/smbrun.c, it seems that most of the functionality 
> of the wrapper has been moved into the smbrun()
> function...

If I remember correctly, smbrun is used in systems that 
do not have execlp() (? one of the exec..() functions...not 
sure if this is the exact one or not)





Cheers,
jerry
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