Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932220AbWIAQNx (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932205AbWIAQNx (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:13:53 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.4]:56014 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932220AbWIAQNw (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:13:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH 019 of 19] knfsd: Register all RPC programs with portmapper by default From: Trond Myklebust To: Chuck Lever Cc: NeilBrown , Andrew Morton , Olaf Kirch , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <76bd70e30609010831m9e80cfav514d60718d35e7d5@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060901141639.27206.patches@notabene> <1060901043948.27677@suse.de> <76bd70e30609010831m9e80cfav514d60718d35e7d5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:13:34 -0400 Message-Id: <1157127214.5632.62.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.308, required 12, autolearn=disabled, AWL 1.69, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL -5.00) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 614 Lines: 17 On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:31 -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? Ermm... Any RPC server process that doesn't want to register with the portmapper. The NFSv4 callback channel is one obvious candidate. Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/