Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:54:07 +0200
From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: Chuck Lever <chucklever@gmail.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH 019 of 19] knfsd: Register all RPC programs with portmapper by default
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:31:25AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> I don't like this.  The idea that multiple RPC services are listening
> on the same port is a total hack.  What other service might use this
> besides NFSACL?

Why do you consider this a hack? I have always felt that librpc requiring
you to open separate ports for every program you register was a poor
design. The RPC header contains the program number, and the RPC code
is fully capable of demuxing incoming requests. So I do not think it is
a hack at all.

And yes, Solaris NFSACL resides on 2049 too.

Olaf
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