secureRPC on alpha/binary compatibility

[Richard Henderson]

On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 05:40:47PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> I could try to write wrappers around this in glibc/sunrpc, so that it 
> could work. But I think this is no solution, because this struct is also
> used by user code.

Good Lord...

> If I change the header to create our own rpc_timeval
> struct, it could break binary compatibility with existing programs on 
> Alpha.

You may just change it anyway.  There aren't _that_ many programs
that use RPC, and they only haphazardly work on Alpha since the
common Sun code is so poor.


r~