Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757826AbXEJQpc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 12:45:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754624AbXEJQpZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 12:45:25 -0400 Received: from mail.exanet.com ([212.143.73.109]:35538 "EHLO mr.exanet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754548AbXEJQpY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 12:45:24 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [PATCH] NLM program ID for user space NLM server Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 19:45:23 +0300 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1178814431.6775.1.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [PATCH] NLM program ID for user space NLM server Thread-Index: AceTIBPar1Cjmpp2T2mb7YyTNdAV9wAAn6XQ From: "Menny Hamburger" To: "Trond Myklebust" Cc: "Neil Brown" , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 27 Yes, but in our case we don't care. This is a dedicated server where we don't see any usage for NLM client. We just want to prevent the kernel from taking the port in case of some accidental NFS mount that ommitted 'nolock'. -----Original Message----- From: Trond Myklebust [mailto:trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:27 PM To: Menny Hamburger Cc: Neil Brown; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: [PATCH] NLM program ID for user space NLM server On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:30 +0300, Menny Hamburger wrote: > The idea in the change was to be able to override NLM_PROGRAM with > another definition (from our slightly customized build system), so > that the kernel never tries to register port 100021. I repeat: The kernel _NEEDS_ to register RPC service 100021 on the client so that rpc.statd can find it and notify it of server reboots. 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/