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To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Subject: Re: portmap_enable vs. rpcbind_enable 
Cc: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
	alfred@FreeBSD.ORG
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:38:15 BST."
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:47:51 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200107311638.f6VGcFc56314@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes:
: > In message <20010731114846.42FA73E2F@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Dima Dorfman writes:
: > : 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).
: > 
: > Because we didn't want to break old people's config files.  Also, the
: > rpcbind rename was stupid and there were people at the time that had
: > hoped it be renamed portmap since that was a bigger pola :-)
: 
: Are you referring to grog & bde only ?

There were a fair number of people that wanted the name to remain the
same...  I want it to remaint he same, but I don't care enough to
fight.

Warner

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