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Re: Reverting removal of exporting sunrpc code for glibc 2.16?
- From: Khem Raj <raj dot khem at gmail dot com>
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, ldv at altlinux dot org, allan at archlinux dot org, debian-glibc at lists dot debian dot org, aurel32 at debian dot org, vapier at gentoo dot org, law at redhat dot com, matz at suse dot de, Adam Conrad <adconrad at debian dot org>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 17:32:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: Reverting removal of exporting sunrpc code for glibc 2.16?
- References: <201205081613.28892.aj@suse.com>
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> I'd like to have feedback - especially from the glibc distribution
> maintainers - whether we should revert the following change for glibc 2.16:
>
> * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. ÂOld programs keep working
> Âbut new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
> ÂPrograms in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
> ÂThe TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
I am in favor of reinstating it.