In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dima Dorfman writes:
: Does anybody know (remember?) why portmap_enable (the rc.conf knob)
: wasn't renamed to rpcbind_enable when portmap became rpcbind? It
: seems odd to have a knob called portmap_enable that actually starts
: something called rpcbind (not to mention violating POLA).
Because we didn't want to break old people's config files. Also, the
rpcbind rename was stupid and there were people at the time that had
hoped it be renamed portmap since that was a bigger pola :-)
Warner
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