On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:20:39AM -0700, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> No, it's not.  It's a bug in the code using the db interfaces.  To
> quote dbopen(3):
> 
> KEY/DATA PAIRS
>        Access to all file types is based on key/data pairs.  Both
>        keys and data are represented by the following data struc-
>        ture:
> [ ... ]
>        Key  and data byte strings may reference strings of essen-
>        tially unlimited length although any two of them must  fit
>        into  available  memory  at  the  same time.  It should be
>        noted that the access methods provide no guarantees  about
>        byte string alignment.
> 
> i.e., if you want to access them as structures, it's on you to make
> sure you've put them in a form such that that is safe.

Hum ok, so we should pad the key to the alignement required by the
architecture.
Shouldn't be hard to do in rpc.statd but I need to know the alignement
requirement for the arch we are compiling for. Is there a macro or something
that will give me that info ? Doing "#ifdef __foo_" doesn't look like the
rigth solution.

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