From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 27 11:31:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75FFA37B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:31:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 38543 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Mar 2001 19:31:42 -0000 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:31:42 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Doug Barton Cc: Warner Losh , Greg Lehey , Andrew Reilly , David O'Brien , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP ** portmap daemon renamed to rpcbind Message-ID: <20010327213141.A38317@rohrbach.de> Reply-To: karsten@rohrbach.de Mail-Followup-To: Doug Barton , Warner Losh , Greg Lehey , Andrew Reilly , David O'Brien , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010326175419.X40349@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010321104438.A94096@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010326090306.D40349@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3ABEF43A.D4DA1929@DougBarton.net> <20010326172414.V40349@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010326181905.B75840@gurney.reilly.home> <20010326175419.X40349@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200103270740.f2R7eJ942673@harmony.village.org> <20010327152621.A20645@rohrbach.de> <3AC0D674.9785E656@DougBarton.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AC0D674.9785E656@DougBarton.net>; from DougB@DougBarton.net on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:05:40AM -0800 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-Sender: karsten@rohrbach.de Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton(DougB@DougBarton.net)@Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:05:40AM -0800: > "Karsten W. Rohrbach" wrote: > > > > Warner Losh(imp@harmony.village.org)@Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:40:18AM -0700: > > > In message <20010326175419.X40349@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: > > > : > Play the ball, not the man. > > > : > > > : I don't have an objection to the change, I was just asking. And > > > : "because System V does it this way" has never been a good answer for > > > : us. And no, I'm not picking on Doug, just making a point. > > > > > > I see no reason why the name can't remain portmap. > > > > > does it take parameters? > > then it would make sense to have it named rpcbind... > > Pardon me being dense, but what does that have to do with anything? > portmap took a -v flag, or are you talking about something different? the idea is, that if rpcbind takes parameters different from portmap it would make sense to call rpcbind rpcbind because people's boxes will start to barf when rpcbind is called portmap, they make world, and skip reading the rpcbind paragraph in UPDATING ;-) does this make sense? /k -- > Hugh Hefner is a virgin. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message