Hello! I'm back with some more news. Currently i am building and testing NFS Server for 64 bits. The following was done so far: - libtirpc package - fixed to always export svc_auth_none (see my previous message); - rpcgen package - successfully rebuilt and tested, works fine, no changes required; - nfs-server package - successfully rebuilt against libtirpc with patching. Testing is to be done. - rpcbind - ported to Cygwin. Testing is to be done.
Obsolete sunrpc package is almost not needed, except public headers in include/rpcsvc. The following subset of the is needed by rpcbind (here and below i will refer to C code at http://git.infradead.org/users/steved/rpcbind.git/blob/HEAD:/src/security.c) : --- cut --- #include <rpcsvc/mount.h> #include <rpcsvc/rquota.h> #include <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h> #include <rpcsvc/yp.h> #include <rpcsvc/ypclnt.h> #include <rpcsvc/yppasswd.h> --- cut --- 6 files so far. To tell the truth i feel a bit bad about having to keep the complete obsolete package just for 6 files. I noticed that mount.h and nfs_prot.h (together with .x from which they are generated) are available in a fresh version inside nfs-server source code. The only missing thing is copying them to /usr/include during installation, which can be easily fixed. The rest are: rquota.h, yp.h, ypclnt.h and yppasswd.h. Their definitions are used only by check_callit() function, which obviously has something to do with security and forcibly denies some actions. There are several things to be done with them and i'd like to discuss what's better: 1. Keep original sunrpc package in extremely reduced form, containing only include/rpcsvc directory (this is how my test build is done). 2. Pick up this thing and make a new package out of it: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/librpcsvc/ 3. Export NFS-related includes from nfs-server package (creating nfs-server-devel), and #ifdef the rest out. Personally i like (3) most of all because it's the simplest thing to do and it won't pollute Cygwin with packages with almost no purpose. After all, who uses NIS nowadays ? The only thing that makes me feeling bad - what does this code actually do ? Won't disabling NIS-related stuff hurt security ? Kind regards, Pavel Fedin Expert Engineer Samsung Electronics Research center Russia -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
