RPC IPv6 breaks binary compatibility
Thorsten Kukuk
kukuk@suse.de
Wed Jan 26 03:12:00 GMT 2000
On Wed, Jan 26, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >- We use symbol versioning and add a new version for the RPC functions.
> > In this case we should also fix the broken use of "long", which should
> > be uint32_t.
>
> This sounds like the right approach. I guess it will involve a little more
> work inside libc, but this way we avoid having to make the ugly changes to
> client programs that would be needed if we just added a second address field.
Yes, but one with the most work, too :(
Thorsten
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