Re: [Libtirpc-devel] [PATCH] Autofs configure fails to detect IPv6 when libtirpc is enabled

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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 <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >>
> > > >> 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.

> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > steved
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > >> Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >> ---
> > > >> 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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