rx/simple.example broken (Re: [OpenAFS-devel] IPv6 Status)

[Derrick Brashear]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:06:03PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> writes:
>>
>> > If I can do a brute-force search/replace of sockaddr_in with
>> > sockaddr_in6 and make rx/simple.example work, we have some code to sta=
rt
>> > discussing other changes.
>>
>> AFS is not the sort of network protocol that you can convert to IPv6 by
>> just doing some global search and replace in the code base. =A0There are
>> significant protocol and on-disk file format issues. =A0For just one
>> example, the Ubik database that stores the VLDB information can't store
>> IPv6 addresses for file servers.
>>
>> Just whacking the internal code structures without thinking about the
>> protocol impact is not going to provide any useful information.
>
> From my point of view, whacking Rx until I can run rx/simple.example
> over an IPv6 only connection gets me some idea of what the protocol
> issues might be, and we'll have some actual code to talk about,
> instead of gnashing of teeth about 'protocol issues' and lack of
> resources.
>
> Back to my earlier point.. why is src/rx/simple.example broken? If it's
> dead code that nobody builds, why is it still in the tree, and if it's
> not, how did it get past the gerrit autobuilder?

it's example code that nobody builds because it's example code. send a patc=
h.



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Derrick