Bug#620421: nfs-kernel-server: init script depends on non-existent ‘/dev/tcp/’

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:01:26PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> On 04/13/2011 10:39 PM, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote:
[...]
> > It could be replaced by rpcinfo (as suggested before) which is provided
> > by libc-bin, so no extra dependencies and no breakage. Why not? Why
> > such a resistance?
> 
> I didn't see the suggestion to use rpcinfo. The one of libc-bin will
> probably be removed at some point, though we always will have the one of
> rpcbind.
> 
> Committed, so will be in a new upload unless any objections are out.
 
Does glibc's rpcinfo actually work with rpcbind, then?  It is
documented as only speaking the portmapper protocol, and we now
know libtirpc doesn't handle that.

Also, I think either method (/dev/tcp/localhost/111 or rpcinfo)
will not work for anyone who configures rpcbind to listen on IPv6
only.

Ben.

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