On Jul 26, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Ian Kent wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:23 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 08:57 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:13 -0400, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 07/26/2011 10:50 AM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> From: Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The IPv6 client functions clntudp6_bufcreate(), clntudp6_create and
>>>>>> clnttcp6_create and the server functions svcudp6_bufcreate(),
>>>>>> svctcp6_create() and svcudp6_create() are not included in the library
>>>>>> whe libtirpc is built.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Are these part of the libtirpc standard API?  I'm not sure why we would 
>>>>> need them if, say, Solaris does not support these.
>>>> It appears they are not since they are not mentioned the man pages.....
>>>> But, at least in the autofs code, they are expected
>>>>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711956#c0
>>>> 
>>>> Ian, where else are these routines defined? 
>>> 
>>> Now that I look I can't find the original source tar that was used for
>>> libtirpc, thought I had it.
>> 
>> Found what I had.
>> 
>> AFAICT what I think was the original source doesn't have any IPv6 code
>> that I can see.
>> 
>> Worse, these functions were excluded with the "#ifdef INET6_NOT_USED"
>> macro as far back as libtirpc version 0.1.5 so, my bad, sorry.
>> 
>>> 
>>> The story is that long ago when I changed autofs to use libtirpc (to
>>> make it ready for IPv6) I found these functions in the source and they
>>> were (obviously) the IPv6 counterparts for the corresponding IPv4
>>> functions which I was already using, so I used them. It took me quite a
>>> while to realize my code wasn't working and then I found that somewhere
>>> along the line they have been excluded, oops!
>>> 
>>> If there are to be no IPv6 counterparts for the corresponding IPv4
>>> functions which functions should I use then?
>> 
>> So what can I use?
>> 
>> It seems to me that these functions would be useful for people porting
>> code that uses the corresponding IPv4 functions so could we define them
>> please. At some point someone must have had that same idea ....
> 
> Found one more thing that looks relevant, these functions were defined
> in glibc in 2000-01-23 so they may be used by others as well.

I checked in glibc 2.7 (though not thoroughly) and did not find them.

> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> steved
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <ste...@redhat.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> src/rpc_soc.c |    4 ++--
>>>>>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> diff --git a/src/rpc_soc.c b/src/rpc_soc.c
>>>>>> index c678429..584ac71 100644
>>>>>> --- a/src/rpc_soc.c
>>>>>> +++ b/src/rpc_soc.c
>>>>>> @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ clnttcp_create(raddr, prog, vers, sockp, sendsz, 
>>>>>> recvsz)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> /* IPv6 version of clnt*_*create */
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -#ifdef INET6_NOT_USED
>>>>>> +#ifdef INET6
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> CLIENT *
>>>>>> clntudp6_bufcreate(raddr, prog, vers, wait, sockp, sendsz, recvsz)
>>>>>> @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ svcraw_create()
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> /* IPV6 version */
>>>>>> -#ifdef INET6_NOT_USED
>>>>>> +#ifdef INET6
>>>>>> SVCXPRT *
>>>>>> svcudp6_bufcreate(fd, sendsz, recvsz)
>>>>>>  int fd;
>>>>>> -- 
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>>>>>> 
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