From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: Portmap - was Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen on a privileged port?? Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:32:32 -0400 Message-ID: <46352B10.2070806@RedHat.com> References: <17958.48121.280256.493824@notabene.brown> <17968.18279.424773.589417@notabene.brown> <200704261059.50688.okir@lst.de> <200704271707.29862.okir@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: Olaf Kirch Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiIrp-0007fi-Nv for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:31:45 -0700 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1HiIrr-0007Wf-64 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:31:48 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200704271707.29862.okir@lst.de> List-Id: "Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Olaf Kirch wrote: > > It hasn't seen much testing; I just confirmed that it still seems to > work with IPv4. The IPv6 side hasn't seen any testing yet. > > Please consider this as a proof of concept. I'm very curious.... why is there such a love affair with the glibc code? Its one of the oldest version running.. it has not been well maintained (basically because it couldn't be)... The code has compatible issues when apps are ported to it (I have bugs to prove that)... so why is there such a reverence for code that can arguably be called a lesser implementation? As far as moving the glibc into a stand alone library, I not sure how that sense either... I guess the idea is to take the old code and added in a new network stack resulting in pile of code that has zero amount testing... verses going with time tested code that is known to work but does have couple of issues... From a risk management point of view, it seems to me the latter is heads and shoulders above the former... so again, why does it make sense to do this? steved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs