From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: Portmap - was Re: Does mountd/statd really need to	listen
	on a privileged port??
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 12:22:12 +0800
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On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 09:03 -0400, Peter Staubach wrote:
> Olaf Kirch wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 April 2007 08:32, Neil Brown wrote:
> >   
> >> Following this logic, should we add rpcbind functionality to portmap
> >> rather than throw it out and start with something less known???
> >>     
> >
> > I'm not sure. The rpcbind code isn't exactly pretty, but neither is
> > portmap.
> >
> > Anyway, I guess in order to prove my point about the sunrpc library
> > I should cough up some code to prove it can be done. I'll be uploading
> > some patches later tonight or tomorrow.
> >   
> 
> Before we go too far down the road of ignoring all of the work that
> the engineers at Sun have been doing on the RPC library, is there a
> way of getting a newer version of the RPC support to start with?  The
> current stuff is quite old.

I managed to find a copy of tirpc99 and the code layout looks very
different. Get it from http://members.plug.org.au/~raven/tirpc99/.

We would need to review the license as I think there's a reason we see
the tirpc 2.3 version everywhere.

Ian


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