> The feature was not used by any applications to now in positive sense,
> mostly in negative one. That fact that portmap is called even if nobody
It breaks every single existing machine set up to use NIS by default and
relying on the error returns to handle NIS not being present. It breaks
failing over from NIS
> To add, libraries need not any changes. New distribution
> will have correct nsswitch.conf without spurious "nisplus" switch
> exactly like Solaris do. That's all. óertainly, hooking IP_RECVERR
This doesnt solve failure handling when the NIS server vanishes. Right now
that works. With your kernel it doesnt
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