RPC and IPv6

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 00:20, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

> because with ti-rpc we can communicate 
> with all other IPv6 ready RPC implementations. With everything else we
> are not able to do so.

According to you we cannot even talk to earlier glibc versions which is
completely unacceptable.


> I don't see your problems: We have symbol versioning with which we
> should be able to solve the problems. But more after I know exact
> what will break.

You haven't read what I wrote, have you?  Symbol versioning cannot cover
up the complet breakage of a large number of interfaces reliably and it
cannot at all cover up protocol incompatibilities.

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