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Re: sized types, and ridding ourselves of them

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Mon Oct 20 17:44:01 1997

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 17:43:34 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Cc: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz's message of 20 Oct 1997 14:03:26 -0400,
	<t53sotwfh1t.fsf@rover.cygnus.com>

   From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
   Date: 20 Oct 1997 14:03:26 -0400

   >> And doesn't the use of RPC (GSS-RPC) sorta require sized typed, anyway?
   >> That's not a reason to expunge them everywhere else, though :-)

   Well, the way things are implemented now, yes.  But there's no reason
   a sized-type-free rpc implementation couldn't be done.  It wouldn't be
   binary compatible, but that's already an issue due to some structure
   changes.

Well, the ONCRPC workign group just finished with their spec, and it
still uses sized-types on the _wire_.  (Of course sized-types on the
wire doesn't necessarily imply sized-types in the implementation.)

						- Ted
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