Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:33:59 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alfred@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portmap_enable vs. rpcbind_enable Message-ID: <20010731153404.2CF803E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20010731102606.A26323@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:26:06 -0500"
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Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> writes: > In the last episode (Jul 31), Dima Dorfman said: > > Does anybody know (remember?) why portmap_enable (the rc.conf knob) > > wasn't renamed to rpcbind_enable when portmap became rpcbind? It > > seems odd to have a knob called portmap_enable that actually starts > > something called rpcbind (not to mention violating POLA). > > Probably to keep existing rc.conf's from breaking. Same reason we've > still got xntpd_enable. Why not change the names now, but keep the old ones working until, say, 5.0 is branched? People moving from 4.x will have enough hurdles to jump through as it is, and those using -current will have half a year to change it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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