rpc.statd already ipv6 clean?

Rick Macklem rmacklem at uoguelph.ca
Fri Sep 27 21:52:19 UTC 2019


Mihir Luthra wrote:
>Hi Rick,
>Rick wrote:
>>Although I'll admit it isn't something I am particularily fond of, FreeBSD likes
>>utilities to build/work with only one of ipv4/ipv6.
>>To do this, "#ifdef INET" and "#ifdef INET6" is applied to the code and the
>>Makefile is tweaked to define one or both of these.
>>(You can look at usr.sbin/nfsuserd for an example of this.)
>
>Yes I see. Although I was thinking, wouldn't it be better if we can take a flag via >getopts for ipv6/ipv4 if the machine supports both with macro guards around >too?
bz@ is the guy to ask. I've cc'd him.

>Btw, these protocols are old Sun Microsystems ones without any published
>RFC, so what is "correct" is difficult to determine. I suppose the Open
>Solaris sources is the best protocol specification. (Interop. testing with Linux
>would be nice, since Linux is the "defacto standard" now.)
>
>Good luck with it, rick
>
>Thanks for the tips,
>Mihir
rick


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