On 04/08/2011 04:24 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > libtirpc really does a terrible job of protocol fallback. > > When trying to connect to rpcbind/portmap, it iterates over the > protocols listed in /etc/netconfig (nice choice of name, oh yeah) and > tries to create a socket for each in turn. Then it selects the last > protocol for which that succeeded (yes, the last, not the first). > > Only then does it try to connect. So there is no fallback at all for > connection. > > I'm attaching a patch to fix connection fallback, but unfortunately it > is not sufficient to make svc_reg() with portmap.
I think we should just drop portmap support altogether. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
