Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:19:45 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@haven.freebsd.dk>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: splitting off RPC and friends Message-ID: <20050826181945.GB10222@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <yged5o0k376.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> References: <86d5o1q7rw.fsf@xps.des.no> <99653.1125054352@phk.freebsd.dk> <yged5o0k376.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>
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--9zSXsLTf0vkW971A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:39:25AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: > Hi, >=20 > >>>>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:05:52 +0200 > >>>>> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> said: >=20 > phk> In message <86d5o1q7rw.fsf@xps.des.no>, =3D?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_= Sm=3DF8rgrav?=3D 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? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. I do. It's lightweight, fairly easy to configure, cross platform, and entierly in the base system. It would be nice though if we could move the nsswitch support for NIS into it's own module at some point so it's only inflicted on people who actually do use it. :) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --9zSXsLTf0vkW971A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDD11AXY6L6fI4GtQRAlKJAJ9KzJ8iO6TSyVm/y6aQu4XIxB5jwACfbp2A JWb9OVMGq1QzyJPfqK6/cpo= =TQMK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9zSXsLTf0vkW971A--
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