Hello, while looking through the source of the Debian package krb5-1.6.dfsg.4~beta1, I came across the following function (file src/lib/rpc/clnt_udp.c, lines 221-407): static enum clnt_stat clntudp_call([...]) { [...] else { [...] enum xdr_op op = reply_xdrs.x_op; reply_xdrs.x_op = XDR_FREE; xdr_replymsg(&reply_xdrs, &reply_msg); reply_xdrs.x_op = op; return (RPC_CANTDECODERES); cu->cu_error.re_status = RPC_CANTDECODERES; } return (cu->cu_error.re_status); } Since the "return (RPC_CANTDECODERES);" is unconditional, the following assignment to cu->cu_error.re_status can never be reached. I am not quite sure about the intention of the code, but my guess is, that this assignment should just be removed. I hope this helps, Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/