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Re: RPC IPv6 breaks binary compatibility
- To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: RPC IPv6 breaks binary compatibility
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 25 Jan 2000 19:48:37 -0800
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000125213206.A20249@Wotan.suse.de>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:
> As far as I can say, no program allocates memory for SVCXPRT,
> it is only a handle for RPC. But some program derefence the
> pointer to get the response verifier. This now fails because the
> data is stored on another adress.
But this will be broken anyway. If we move the new element to the end
and let the old socket struct in place, at least for IPv6 connections
accessing the structure won't work. Why do programs have to access
this struct anyway?
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