From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: libtirpc and nis Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:15:27 -0400 Message-ID: <4A27D6FF.9070702@RedHat.com> References: <200906031002.38551.vapier@gentoo.org> <200906031844.34398.vapier@gentoo.org> <047CD688-878B-4504-BD59-3C0B65C1B631@oracle.com> <200906032012.21876.vapier@gentoo.org> <4A279C05.9030108@RedHat.com> <1244117219.5203.12.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Mike Frysinger , Chuck Lever , Linux NFS Mailing list , libtirpc To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:49356 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753912AbZFDOSs (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:18:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1244117219.5203.12.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 06:03 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 19:59:09 Chuck Lever wrote: >>>> On Jun 3, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>>>> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:14:44 Steve Dickson wrote: >>>>>> Mike Frysinger wrote: >>>>>>> the libtirpc package is self described as a "standalone package". i >>>>>>> wonder how far that actually goes. wrt NIS, it requires the >>>>>>> system C >>>>>>> library to provide NIS functionality or you get a build failure in >>>>>>> a few >>>>>>> files. would be nice if libtirpc were usable without any NIS >>>>>>> baggage at >>>>>>> all. >>>>>> NIS used RPC procedures to communicate. As it stands today >>>>>> NIS is currently using the RPC procedures glibc. In the >>>>>> future there is a very good chance that NIS will start >>>>>> using the RPC procedures in libtirpc especially if >>>>>> IPV6 support is needed... >>>>>> >>>>>> So I'm a bit confused on what you mean by "NIS baggage" >>>>>> in the libtirpc package. >>>>> you cannot build libtirpc on a system that doesnt provide NIS >>>>> functionality. >>>>> realistic RPC usage today is NFS related services only (i.e. a NFS >>>>> client >>>>> mounting a share on a NFS server). >>>> Mike, it would help if you could provide the build output so we can >>>> see exactly what's failing. >>> libtirpc does not provide rpcsvc/nis.h >> Hmm... I wonder what it would take to incorporate that file into >> libitrpc... > > rpcgen support. We already have the nis.x file in glibc's copy of the > rpcsvc directory. I'm thinking more of licensing issues.. steved.