What to do about rcmdsh(3) ?

[Eitan Adler]

On 24 June 2018 at 03:32, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> Now that the rcmds are removed from base, it opens a question about
> what to do with rcmdsh(3).
> This is documented as
>      rcmdsh – return a stream to a remote command without superuser
> And is implemented as a rather simple wrapper of getaddrinfo and exec.
>
> This isn't something I'd imagine we'd add to libc now-a-days and is
> currently broken by default (due to defaulting to _PATH_RSH)
>
> I'm not sure there is much value in keeping this function around. I
> did a rather naive search for uses of this function in ports and
> couldn't find any. I'm preparing a more comprehensive patch for an
> exp-run.
>
> Does anyone have a reason to keep in libc? Any objection to removing
> it? If no, is there anything special I need to do beyond just removing
> the implementation and references?

Since I'm sending emails at 3:30am anyways, I'll point that generally
applies to rcmd(3) and related too.

I don't really understand the use-case for these functions on modern systems.


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Eitan Adler