Renamed, and bug fixed:
Two interesting problems in nis_maplist(). First, it is possible that clnt_create() will return NULL. This was being caught, but no Python error was being set. I use clnt_spcreateerror() to generate the value of the exception. But why would clnt_create() fail? It's because no server was being found. And why was this? It was because nis_maplist() tried only to get the NIS master for the first map in the aliases list, which is passwd.byname, and guess what? That's the one NIS map CNRI does *not* export! So the yp_master() call was failing to return a valid server. I now cycle through all the map aliases until I find a valid master. If not, a different exception is set. I'm not sure this is the completely correct way to do all this, but short of rewriting the entire nismodule.c (to expose the proper API to Python), it should do the trick.
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