From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Portmap - was Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen
	on a privileged port??
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:58:26 +0100
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Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>,
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	Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@novell.com>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
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To: Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@oracle.com>
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:56:01AM +0200, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> I'm wondering whether all that hassle is really worth
> it. There should be a way to IPv6 enable the glibc RPC
> implementation without having to go to TIRPC. Yes,
> Solaris requires rpcbind and such in order to do IPv6.
> But that's not the same as replacing glibc's sunrpc code.

Yepp.  One other thing about tirpc is that it pulls in a lot
of TLI crap.  Given that we never implemented TLI on Linux
and never will this seems like a lot of useless baggae.

(Especially as SUN is backing down a lot on TLI aswell)

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