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 15:37:42 +0100
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Cc: Aime.Le-Rouzic@bull.net, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@novell.com>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
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To: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:22:06AM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> and sure it *might* be possible to simply turn IPv6 in the
> glibc RPC code but its been stated very clearly that will
> not happen because the glibc people no longer want to
> support that code... They have and will continue to
> resit any and all changes...

I have the feeling we're talking past each other here :-)

Even if changes to glibc itself are not going to happen you still can
take the glibc rpc code, make changes to it and turn it into a
separate library.  Given the indicators that Ulrich doesn't want new
features in glibcs that seems to be the most useful solution.


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