Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/rpc

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080127084912.56D7B11703%yamt.dyndns.org@localhost>,
YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
>> On Jan 26,  7:57pm, yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) 
>> wrote:
>> -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libc/rpc
>> 
>> | > Module Name:     src
>> | > Committed By:    christos
>> | > Date:            Fri Jan 25 19:43:53 UTC 2008
>> | > 
>> | > Modified Files:
>> | >  src/lib/libc/rpc: pmap_getport.c
>> | > 
>> | > Log Message:
>> | > PR/37864: Wolfgang Stukenbrock: when requesting TCP rcp-service
>port numbers
>> | > UDP is used
>> | > 
>> | > 
>> | > To generate a diff of this commit:
>> | > cvs rdiff -r1.16 -r1.17 src/lib/libc/rpc/pmap_getport.c
>> | > 
>> | > Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
>> | > copyright notices on the relevant files.
>> | 
>> | does it make sense to retry on RPC_PROGNOTREGISTERED?
>> 
>> Can't a program register only for tcp and not for udp?
>> 
>> christos
>
>your change is about the transports used by the portmapper itself,
>not by the queried services, right?

Yes, I was confused. It does not make sense to retry if the program
was found not to be registered.

>honestly speaking, i don't understand the rationale of this change.
>if tcp is so reliable, why don't you try it when protocol != IPPROTO_TCP?

I think that Wolfgang was trying to use NIS across a network where UDP
was not available/reliable.

christos