Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:10:01AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:Andreas Barth wrote:I do make this destinction. But the discussed question is not: Are we going to release sarge now, but without Sun RPC?And precisely why isn't that the discussed question?RPC is an old, tired protocol which should not generally be used. So release without it already.RPC is used in portmap and so in NFS. Do you know another serious and common shared filesystem standard which is available for all unices?
Ick. I guess if it's used in NFS we're stuck with it. :-PNot that NFS should be used generally either (fun with security holes!), but it is standard and unavoidable in a lot of places, and you're quite right that there isn't a good standard replacement.