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Re: [PATCH] Disable rest of sunrpc, too [V3]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
>> Regarding /etc/rpc and (rpc/)netdb.h, does your software (or TIRPC
>> proper) include an implementation of getrpcby(name|number|ent)?
>
> No, especially not one which is NSS capable. That's why this functions
> are still enabled and the header file still installed.
> I remembered meanwhile an older discussion, that we wanted to keep that
> functions in glibc, since this is no real RPC code but glibc macros.

Yeah, I came to the same conclusion myself just now.

Given the history of these patches, I suspect nobody else is going to
react. Please wait another week or two for objections, and if there
aren't any, go ahead and commit them.

zw
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