Re: RPC and IPv6

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>]

On Thu, May 30, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 23:09, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 
> > We tried this already in the past: It is not possible to add IPv6
> > support to the old sunrpc code:
> 
> Why then did you even suggest to replace the current code with whatever
> is new? 

Beause in the moment glibc is the only C Library which does not support
RPC over IPv6 (beside the one from OpenBSD). And I suggest to replace the
sunrpc code with the newer ti-rpc code, because with ti-rpc we can communicate 
with all other IPv6 ready RPC implementations. With everything else we
are not able to do so.

> It cannot be done if it incompatible.  This means that the new
> RPC code will have to have a life on its own somewhere else and users
> linking with that separate library are responsible for the compatibility
> issues.

I don't see your problems: We have symbol versioning with which we
should be able to solve the problems. But more after I know exact
what will break.

  Thorsten

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