On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <ho...@hozed.org> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:06:03PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Troy Benjegerdes <ho...@hozed.org> writes: >> >> > If I can do a brute-force search/replace of sockaddr_in with >> > sockaddr_in6 and make rx/simple.example work, we have some code to start >> > discussing other changes. >> >> AFS is not the sort of network protocol that you can convert to IPv6 by >> just doing some global search and replace in the code base. There are >> significant protocol and on-disk file format issues. For just one >> example, the Ubik database that stores the VLDB information can't store >> IPv6 addresses for file servers. >> >> Just whacking the internal code structures without thinking about the >> protocol impact is not going to provide any useful information. > > From my point of view, whacking Rx until I can run rx/simple.example > over an IPv6 only connection gets me some idea of what the protocol > issues might be, and we'll have some actual code to talk about, > instead of gnashing of teeth about 'protocol issues' and lack of > resources. > > Back to my earlier point.. why is src/rx/simple.example broken? If it's > dead code that nobody builds, why is it still in the tree, and if it's > not, how did it get past the gerrit autobuilder?
it's example code that nobody builds because it's example code. send a patch. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list OpenAFS-devel@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
