Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:39:31 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Edward Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removal of rmt(8)? rcmd(3)? Message-ID: <20191010083931.GL44691@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <CAGSa5y0PDuBhbTfobSHnL0ZJNZ9EG6H_igxMiMwcPeBeF8MfDQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGSa5y0PDuBhbTfobSHnL0ZJNZ9EG6H_igxMiMwcPeBeF8MfDQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:30:30PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi, > > In August 2017 I removed FreeBSD rcmd tools (rsh, ruptime, etc). > > trasz@ (cc'ed) reached out to me asking if we should remove rmt(8). It > relies on rcmd(3) which, as I understand it, is a libc function which > implements protocol used by rshd(8). This looks like me these two > should have been removed in 2017 as well. > > Pardon my ignorance but I've just discovered about these two. Are > there any other commands/libraries like this which are candidates to > be removed? > > Other thoughts? Note that you cannot remove a symbol from symver-ed library. Look at what was done recently for gets(3) to have an idea how this could be handled.
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