RPC IPv6 breaks binary compatibility

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi,

the new RPC IPv6 patch for glibc 2.2 breaks the binary 
compatibility of old binaries.
The patch for SVCXPRT in rpc/svc.h increases the struct, since
sockaddr_storage uses much more space then sockaddr_in. But old
programs doesn't allocate enough space.

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.

  Thorsten

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