Re: New libtirpc vs fedfs-utils.

[NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>]

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On Fri, 22 May 2015 10:25:20 -0400 Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Neil-
> 
> 
> On May 21, 2015, at 11:54 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Chuck / Steve,
> > 
> > It seems that fedfs-utils doesn't build with the new libtirpc.
> > 
> > Specifically fedfsd requires symbols
> > 
> >  svcauth_gss_set_svc_name
> >  svcauth_gss_get_principal
> > 
> > but libtirpc doesn't expose them any longer - it never included them in .h
> > files or provided documentation.
> > 
> > As far as I can tell fedfs-utils really does need these interfaces, there is
> > no alternate.
> 
> fedfs-utils needs to be updated, now that the new rpc_gss API is merged
> into libtirpc, to use rpc_gss_set_svc_name(3t) and rpc_gss_getcred(3t).
> That’s on my to-do list.
> 
> In the meantime . . .
> 
> > Would it be appropriate to make them "official" with header and doco support?
> 
> A fix for this issue was proposed yesterday on libtirpc-devel.
> 

Ahh, thanks.  I should have looked in the archives first, shouldn't I ?

I'll go see.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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