From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Portmap - was Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen
 on a privileged port??
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:03:42 -0400
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Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
To: Olaf Kirch <okir@lst.de>
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Olaf Kirch wrote:
> On Thursday 26 April 2007 08:32, Neil Brown wrote:
>   
>> Following this logic, should we add rpcbind functionality to portmap
>> rather than throw it out and start with something less known???
>>     
>
> I'm not sure. The rpcbind code isn't exactly pretty, but neither is
> portmap.
>
> Anyway, I guess in order to prove my point about the sunrpc library
> I should cough up some code to prove it can be done. I'll be uploading
> some patches later tonight or tomorrow.
>   

Before we go too far down the road of ignoring all of the work that
the engineers at Sun have been doing on the RPC library, is there a
way of getting a newer version of the RPC support to start with?  The
current stuff is quite old.

    Thanx...

       ps

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