What to do about rcmdsh(3) ?

[Eitan Adler]

On 24 June 2018 at 05:14, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 03:32:13AM -0700, Eitan Adler 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.
> There is a huge value in keeping ABI compatibility.  The symbol must be kept.
> You may remove default version for the symbol if you are so inclined.

I'm new at this. How does one do that?


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Eitan Adler