From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Portmap - was Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen
 on a privileged port??
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:04:57 -0400
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> Although not the fastes approach the only long-term viable one
> would be to update the glibc rpc code for the new TIRPC APIs and
> IPv6 support.  Even if it's unclear whether Uli would actually
> include it that gives a better start to avoid all kinds of security
> or useability-related regressions.
Well I have a strong hunch that the glibc people do not want anything
to do with changing *any* of the RPC code. I know for a fact that they
are very sorry the accepted in the first place... so with
that type of motivation I really think it would be very painful
to sell them on take any patches... at all...

Secondly, having the to debug and fix a small part of the
RPC code in glibc, I have experienced how truly difficult
it is work with such a large beast... so I pretty confident
that breaking out the RPC into a library we can maintain
ourselves is a good direction to move...


steved.


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