From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@novell.com>,
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a <jfs@computer.org>,
Olaf Kirch <olaf.kirch@Oracle.com>,
anibal@debian.org
Subject: Re: Portmap - was Re: Does mountd/statd really need to listen on a privileged port??
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:17:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070424171708.GA7936@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <462E38B9.5020808@RedHat.com>
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:04:57PM -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
> >Although not the fastes approach the only long-term viable one
> >would be to update the glibc rpc code for the new TIRPC APIs and
> >IPv6 support. Even if it's unclear whether Uli would actually
> >include it that gives a better start to avoid all kinds of security
> >or useability-related regressions.
> Well I have a strong hunch that the glibc people do not want anything
> to do with changing *any* of the RPC code.
That's the impression I got, yes.
> I know for a fact that they
> are very sorry the accepted in the first place... so with
> that type of motivation I really think it would be very painful
> to sell them on take any patches... at all...
>
> Secondly, having the to debug and fix a small part of the
> RPC code in glibc, I have experienced how truly difficult
> it is work with such a large beast... so I pretty confident
> that breaking out the RPC into a library we can maintain
> ourselves is a good direction to move...
Well, even with a separate library it's probably better to
start out with the glibc code to bug to bug compatible.
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 22:05 Does mountd/statd really need to listen on a privileged port?? Neil Brown
2007-04-13 0:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-16 1:03 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-13 0:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-13 1:09 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-13 1:39 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-13 2:04 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-17 10:14 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-17 11:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-16 18:13 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-17 10:08 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-17 11:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-17 11:32 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-18 7:14 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-19 0:46 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-19 1:21 ` Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
2007-04-20 3:04 ` Portmap - was " Neil Brown
2007-04-20 6:49 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-20 8:02 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-20 13:27 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-20 19:18 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-23 4:03 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-23 6:31 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-23 13:43 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-24 0:56 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-24 17:13 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-23 13:28 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-23 23:09 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-24 6:43 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-24 7:24 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-24 15:15 ` Talpey, Thomas
2007-04-24 15:31 ` Talpey, Thomas
2007-04-24 7:08 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-24 15:10 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-24 16:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-24 17:04 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-24 17:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-04-24 17:52 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-24 19:09 ` Peter Åstrand
2007-04-24 20:26 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-24 20:36 ` Peter Staubach
2007-04-25 11:56 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-25 15:44 ` Peter Staubach
2007-04-25 20:14 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-26 6:32 ` Neil Brown
2007-04-26 8:59 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-26 13:03 ` Peter Staubach
2007-05-02 4:22 ` Ian Kent
2007-04-27 15:07 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-27 15:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-27 17:07 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-29 23:32 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-26 7:52 ` Aurélien Charbon
2007-04-25 8:57 ` Peter Åstrand
2007-04-25 8:56 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-25 9:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-25 13:22 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-25 14:10 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-25 14:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-26 14:30 ` Peter Åstrand
2007-04-25 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-25 13:39 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-26 22:22 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-27 2:22 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-27 6:20 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-27 14:01 ` Peter Staubach
2007-04-27 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-27 14:21 ` Peter Staubach
2007-04-27 14:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-29 23:39 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-27 16:49 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-27 17:06 ` Peter Staubach
2007-04-27 17:04 ` Olaf Kirch
2007-04-27 17:34 ` Peter Staubach
2007-05-04 18:52 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-24 14:38 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-19 15:15 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-19 15:21 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-19 15:42 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-19 15:50 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-19 16:36 ` Steve Dickson
2007-04-19 22:50 ` Anibal Monsalve Salazar
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