[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Is OpenAFS vulnerable to CA-2003-10 ?

[Kevin Coffman]

We have an application or two that uses Rx directly.  Our uniqname 
system is one of them.  I don't know offhand what its requirements are.

> Once all of the other "trunk is completely useless for linux servers
> right now" problems are resolved, something I was thinking of working on
> (along with my 5 million other projects) is a cleanup of the XDR stuff.
> Disabling any non-used stuff would definately be an option here. (Does
> ANYONE use Rx directly for anything besides AFS?)
> 
> One of the main things I want to do is to rename all of the functions
> and structures to make them distinct to AFS. This will allow fully
> prototyping everything xdr without conflicting with the O/S provided
> headers and libs. We already use our own xdr libs for everything, might
> as well eliminate the naming conflict as well.
> 
> I'd agree though, should probably be fixed or axed.
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:18, Jim Rees wrote:
> > [ moving this discussion to openafs-devel ]
> > 
> > Is xdr_mem.o used by anything?  It is only linked with the Windows version
> > of the code.  It makes me nervous to have known bad code in the tree, even
> > if it's unused.
> > 
> > Let's either take it out of the tree, or patch it.
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