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

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>]

On 02/10/2012 07:43 AM, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Andreas Jaeger<aj@suse.com>  wrote:
> > On 02/06/2012 05:46 PM, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Andreas Jaeger<aj@suse.com>    wrote:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Andreas,
> > >
> > > Do you happen to know what's missing/deficient?
> >
> >
> > Mike Frysinger has written a couple of emails with details on this list -
> > and also on the libtirpc list, please check the archives.
> >
> > Off my head I remember:
> > * libtirpc does not install all headers, so you still need some from an old
> > glibc install
> > * libtirpc was written to support NFSv4 and handles that one fine. Other
> > stuff, especially NIS/NIS+, is not working.
> >
> > So, libtirpc is not a full replacement ;-(
>
> Thanks Andreas,
>
> I did a bit more digging (since I'm going to put these issues up on
> the GLIBC wiki).

Great, thanks a lot!

> [...]
> I see that Sun deprecated and removed NIS/NIS+ support from its own
> products some time ago.  I suspect that the libtirpc folks aren't
> interested in providing support for this, but we could ask them.

I think NIS+ is not used much on Linux but NIS is still in use. So, I'm 
fine with dropping NIS+ but we need a solution for NIS.

Andreas
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