[Libtirpc-devel] Fwd: Re: proposed patch to rpcbind to provide finer-grained security controls than offered by the -i option
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@gmail.com
Mon Dec 13 22:54:00 GMT 2010
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:29, Chuck Lever <chucklever@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to create a build-time option to include the RPC
> implementation in glibc, and to install the RPC headers and man pages
> at install time?
The concept of binary compatibility seems to be completely alien to
you. No, there cannot be an option to leave out code which has been
there before without breaking compatibility.
What is possible is to prevent the linker from using the definitions
in libc. It would be as if the symbols aren't there anymore but
existing programs would continue to work. I'm open to implement this
for a future release.
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