Re: RPC and IPv6

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>]

On Fri, May 31, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 00:20, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 
> > because with ti-rpc we can communicate 
> > with all other IPv6 ready RPC implementations. With everything else we
> > are not able to do so.
> 
> According to you we cannot even talk to earlier glibc versions which is
> completely unacceptable.

No, I never said this. I wrote that we would break the protocol if we
would add IPv6 support to the current sunrpc code as we tried in the 
past. ti-rpc speaks the old and the new protocol.

> > 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.
> 
> You haven't read what I wrote, have you?  

I did. But it seems you mix ti-rpc with our tries to add IPv6 to
sunrpc in the past.

> Symbol versioning cannot cover
> up the complet breakage of a large number of interfaces reliably

We don't break a large number of interfaces.

> and it cannot at all cover up protocol incompatibilities.

That's the reason for using ti-rpc instead of hacking sunrpc: With
ti-rpc we don't have the protocol incompatibilities we would introduce
with a hacked sunrpc version.

  Thorsten

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