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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:40:09 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: linux ssc changes
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Awesome, this is an excellent step in the right direction.  Thank you,
Max!

Cheers,

a

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:37:17 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
<maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:

> I have checked in some changes that allow most of the ssc modules to
> compile and link. Here is the list of the things that needs to be done
> next:
> 
> 1)	The neteee directory should be part of
> compiler /usr/include. Currently only compile2 has it there.
> 2)	 The ldap library needs to be updated with our changes.
> Compile2 has the updated library, but there is no place to check it
> in currently. If you want to install it on your system, it is build in
> ~maximk/libldap-src.
> 3)	The modules starting from ssc-sshd-kb5 in the ssc Makefile
> do not compile. Here is the complete list:
> 				ssc-sshd-kb5 \
> 				samba-3.21a \
> 				sendmail \
> 				ssc-socat \
> 				sm-bsd-snmpd \
> 				ssc-webui
> 4)	In some of our code for SSC the authors took a shortcut and
> defined huge functions inline in include files instead of creating a
> library as a normal person would do. Since we are changing all this
> code anyway we should fix this, here is the list of directories (grep
> for "inline" for file list)
> 		Sm-event
> 		Ssc-nfxnis
> 		Includes/linux
> 		Includes/openbsd
> 5)	Start implementing the pieces missing for linux. The
> directories in this list will have a file with *linux* in the name
> and corresponding *openbsd* file. In the end the *linux* file should
> implement the same functionality as the *openbsd* file.
> 	./sm-chassis/
> 	./sm-event/
> 	./sm-ipmd/
> 	./sm-opt/f
> 	./sm-sct/
> 	./ssc-cluster
> 	./ssc-crashsave
> 	./ssc-nfxnis
> 	./ssc-nfxsh
> 	./ssc-pm
> 	./ssc-vsd
> 	
> 6)	Look through the source for calls to "system", "execve" and
> similar functions. The compiler can not warn about non-portable things
> in this code, so it has to be done by inspection.
