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Date:      Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:46:28 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, alfred@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portmap_enable vs. rpcbind_enable 
Message-ID:  <20010731154633.68EBB3E35@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010731163832.A91014@walton.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:38:32 %2B0100"

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David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:33:59AM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It still is an extra change for people updating from 4.X to 5.0.
> Maybe we should just make a portmap_program variable which is set
> to portmap in -stable and rpcbind in -current. At least things
> would be orthogonal then.

That's what we already have, but we still have a knob that says it
will start 'portmap' starting something called 'rpcbind', and the user
didn't explicitly ask for that.  If people think it's too much
trouble, though, I'm not going to press the issue.

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