Re: [Libtirpc-devel] [PATCH] Do not bind to reserved ports registered in /etc/services

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>]

On Fri, Jan 12, Chuck Lever wrote:

> > On Jan 12, 2018, at 1:05 PM, Guillem Jover <gjover@sipwise.com> wrote:

> > [F] <https://sources.debian.org/src/glibc/2.26-3/debian/patches/any/local-bindresvport_blacklist.diff/>
> > 
> > On the above Debian bug report, it was proposed to make libtirpc switch
> > to use the libc bindresvport() implementation so that at least on those
> > distributions where it is locally patched it would honor the
> > /etc/bindresvport.blacklist file. The problem with this, is of course
> > that it does not help any upstream code on any other non-patched system.
> 
> The community issue here is that there have evolved, over time,
> multiple RPC libraries with divergent capabilities. The only way
> to truly address this confusion is to eliminate all but one of
> them, which is far outside the scope of your bug fix. For now we
> have to live with it.

openSUSE is removing sunrpc from glibc, Fedora seems to be removing
sunrpc from glibc, so it's only a matter of time when libtirpc is the
only RPC implementation used on Linux.

  Thorsten

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