Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:32:13 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: What to do about rcmdsh(3) ? Message-ID: <CAF6rxg=LbpQ1NfLQN%2B6hH61HusTdZ8hiuFfxXKb5sU_8oidROw@mail.gmail.com>
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Now that the rcmds are removed from base, it opens a question about
what to do with rcmdsh(3).
This is documented as
rcmdsh =E2=80=93 return a stream to a remote command without superuser
And is implemented as a rather simple wrapper of getaddrinfo and exec.
This isn't something I'd imagine we'd add to libc now-a-days and is
currently broken by default (due to defaulting to _PATH_RSH)
I'm not sure there is much value in keeping this function around. I
did a rather naive search for uses of this function in ports and
couldn't find any. I'm preparing a more comprehensive patch for an
exp-run.
Does anyone have a reason to keep in libc? Any objection to removing
it? If no, is there anything special I need to do beyond just removing
the implementation and references?
--=20
Eitan Adler
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