Re: [Patch] Adding fedfs to /etc/rpc

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>]

On Monday, February 06, 2012 05:33:51 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> 
wrote:
> > You're missing an actual log entry, showing just the header line.
> > 
> > libc's sunrpc support is already deprecated.  I'm not sure that
> > distributions actually install glibc's etc.rpc in /etc anyway.
> > 
> > I suspect the only change we want to make to sunrpc/etc.rpc at this
> > point is removing it (except perhaps in pre-2.14 release branches, if
> > any of those are actively maintained).  The file used on systems
> > today should come from TI-RPC or somewhere else like that.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> This file should come from TI-RPC; looking at their source [1] I don't
> see anything like this so some work is required there.
> 
> The pre-2.14 release branches have maintainers [2], but they are only
> as active as we have people asking for backports.

Unfortunately, libtirpc is still no full replacement for the sunrpc library 
in glibc - and I see no progress on the libtirpc mailing list to achieve 
this.

Andreas

> Cheers,
> Carlos.
> 
> [1] http://git.infradead.org/users/steved/libtirpc.git
> [2] http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release

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