broken strndup on AIX 5.1

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Sun Aug 22 16:02:54 GMT 2004


So strndup and strnlen are broken in AIX 5.5.1 ?

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 15:51, Doug VanLeuven wrote:
> Also, AIX 5.1 still has a broken strnlen as noted at gnu.org under 
> autoconf 5.5.1 Portability of C Functons.
> I need some help with configure.in.
> 
> Doug VanLeuven wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > AIX 5.1.0.50
> > samba 3_0 svn 1824
> > strndup in libc.a
> >
> > I could pass all the smbtorture tests except MANGLE.
> > This patch on an AIX illustrates the problem if smb.conf uses hash2 
> > method and allows MANGLE to succeed.
> > Neither are the build_farm AIX systems passing this test.
> >
> > Would someone point me towards the proper way to solve this in 
> > configure?  Try and test for broken strndup behavior or just use the 
> > builtin for AIX 5L?
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