Removal of rmt(8)? rcmd(3)?

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:30:30PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In August 2017 I removed FreeBSD rcmd tools (rsh, ruptime, etc).
> 
> trasz@ (cc'ed) reached out to me asking if we should remove rmt(8). It
> relies on rcmd(3) which, as I understand it, is a libc function which
> implements protocol used by rshd(8). This looks like me these two
> should have been removed in 2017 as well.
> 
> Pardon my ignorance but I've just discovered about these two. Are
> there any other commands/libraries like this which are candidates to
> be removed?
> 
> Other thoughts?

Note that you cannot remove a symbol from symver-ed library.
Look at what was done recently for gets(3) to have an idea how this could
be handled.