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Re: secureRPC on alpha/binary compatibility
- To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: secureRPC on alpha/binary compatibility
- From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:13:50 -0700
- References: <19990409174047.A26817@allen.suse.de>
On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 05:40:47PM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> I could try to write wrappers around this in glibc/sunrpc, so that it
> could work. But I think this is no solution, because this struct is also
> used by user code.
Good Lord...
> If I change the header to create our own rpc_timeval
> struct, it could break binary compatibility with existing programs on
> Alpha.
You may just change it anyway. There aren't _that_ many programs
that use RPC, and they only haphazardly work on Alpha since the
common Sun code is so poor.
r~