[RFC PATCH] Remove --enable-obsolete-rpc flag

Petr Vorel pvorel@suse.cz
Thu Jun 4 11:33:20 GMT 2020


Hi,

> * Petr Vorel:

> > also there is a question what to do with /etc/rpc and
> > /usr/include/rpc/netdb.h.  Should /etc/rpc be moved to libtirpc (or
> > rpcsvc-proto)?

> Both are NSS interfaces, so they should stay.  We can perhaps move the
> declarations for <rpc/netdb.h> into <netdb.h> to make this clearer.
<netdb.h> now includes <rpc/netdb.h> so this wouldn't affect users, which
include <netdb.h>.

> > Is tirpc/rpc/rpcent.h from libtirpc /usr/include/rpc/netdb.h
> > replacement?

> The implementation doesn't route the calls through NSS.  Is it even
> built at all for glibc systems?
No idea :(.

> Thanks,
> Florian

Kind regards,
Petr Vorel


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