Reverting removal of exporting sunrpc code for glibc 2.16?

Khem Raj raj.khem@gmail.com
Wed May 9 00:32:00 GMT 2012


On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> I'd like to have feedback - especially from the glibc distribution
> maintainers - whether we should revert the following change for glibc 2.16:
>
> * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted.  Old programs keep working
>  but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
>  Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
>  The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.

I am in favor of reinstating it.



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