From: =?UTF-8?Q?Peter_=C3=85strand?= <astrand@cendio.se>
Subject: Re: Portmap - was Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen
 on a privileged port??
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:09:21 +0200 (CEST)
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Steve Dickson wrote:

> > Well, even with a separate library it's probably better to
> > start out with the glibc code to bug to bug compatible.
> In theory yes...  but unfortunately Transport Independent
> RPC code is much different than the RPC we have in glibc.
> The TI-RPC code deals with things like CLTS and COTS and
> has configuration file that defines how theses CLITS/COTS
> are handled... notions that are completely foreign to
> the current RPC code...
>=20
> Again, I realize this code is very raw, but the only way
> to bring it up to speed (something I really thing we want
> to do) is using it and making it available to the community.

One thing that bothers me is that the current libtirpc[*] is different=20
from other TI-RPC versions. The current version (as far as I understand)=20
is based on a snapshot from FreeBSD, which is turn is based on Suns TIRPC=
=20
2.3. This code is *not* up to date with TI-RPC 2.9 (aka tirpcsrc_99) and=20
certainly not with the latest OpenSolaris version.

Another problem with TI-RPC is that a Windows port seems to be hard.=20
That's one reason why I'm not porting unfs3 to TI-RPC.=20

Getting Linux distributions to ship (the same) version of TI-RPC is a=20
worthwhile goal, but ideally, we should have an upstream project that=20
covers not only Linux, but also, *BSD, OpenSolaris etc. I know it's not=20
going to be easy, but I think it's worth a try.=20

[*]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libtirpc

Regards,=20
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