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Re: RPC and IPv6
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:32:19AM -0700, 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.
>
>
> > 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? Symbol versioning cannot cover
> up the complet breakage of a large number of interfaces reliably and it
> cannot at all cover up protocol incompatibilities.
>
I don't see why symbol versioning won't work here. We can put the
new rpc in libnsl and make the old rpc in libc.so non-default.
H.J.