On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 23:30 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> >> 
> >> For IPv6 support, use functions that are part of the modern libtirpc
> >> API.  This is described in Sun doc 816-1435.  You probably will be
> >> most successful with the "simplified interface" which is described in
> >> Chapter 4. You might need somewhat more extensive surgery since I'm
> >> guessing you have separate code paths to invoke the IPv4 and IPv6
> >> legacy RPC functions; generally speaking that should not be needed
> >> when using the libtirpc API.
> > 
> > I doubt the simplified interface will be adequate since this code was
> > written because of a need for greater control over timeouts. Perhaps
> > that won't be the case, I don't know yet.
> 
> If you want control over connection timeouts, use the expert-level or
> bottom-level interfaces.  Otherwise you can set per-RPC timeouts when
> clnt_call(3t) is invoked.  nfs-utils has some example code
> (support/nfs/rpc_socket.c is one place to look).
> 
> > Your suggestion amounts to saying I need to re-write all my RPC
> code.
> 
> The substantial change with client-side TI-RPC is how CLIENTs are
> created.  The other RPC operations are similar or the same as they
> were with the legacy API.  Once you get over getnetconfigent(3t) it's
> really not as bad as it looks.
> 

Umm ...

Why is __rpcb_findaddr() declared in the public header files but not
defined anywhere is the source?

Why is __rpcb_findaddr_timed() defined in the source but not defined in
the public header files?


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