Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 02:39:25 +0900 From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@haven.freebsd.dk> Cc: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splitting off RPC and friends Message-ID: <yged5o0k376.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> In-Reply-To: <99653.1125054352@phk.freebsd.dk> References: <86d5o1q7rw.fsf@xps.des.no> <99653.1125054352@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Hi,
>>>>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:05:52 +0200
>>>>> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> said:
phk> In message <86d5o1q7rw.fsf@xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= writes:
>Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> writes:
>> RPC and XDR are far from dead. Are you sure splitting these out is
>> wise? We have to keep the code around, for NFS if nothing else. What's
>> the benefit of moving the routines into a separate library?
>
>Faster load times for the great majority of libc consumers which do
>not need XDR, RPC or NIS?
phk> Very few programs are impacted by code in libc which they don't use,
phk> libc tends to be in-core most of the time.
I think netdb is tightly depending on NIS unless you specify -DNO_NIS
when building libc. I'm not sure how many users are actually using
NIS, though.
Sincerely,
--
Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
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