putting HESIOD, Appletalk and IPX on notice

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Aug 6 07:30:22 GMT 2005


In message <42F46681.10708 at elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> I think it is time we deorbit HESIOD in toto.
>> 
>> At the same time, making Appletalk and IPX "opt in" facilities by
>> putting them under
>> 	YES_IPX
>> and
>> 	YES_APPLETALK
>
>
>how does this differ from
>options NETATALK
>and
>options NETIPX?
>
>Or do you mean for the complete build, i.e netstat etc. as well?

Yes, the complete build.

>My comment on both is that they do live as good working examples of other
>"foreign" network stacks.I also know that there are quite a few old MACS
>sitting around doing various pronter management functions etc.

I know they are, that's why I don't advocating sending them to the
attic yet.  But we have to look at how much idle code we keep around, and
in particular we need to be sensitive to code we never look at which
might contain security issues etc.

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