From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs-utils: mountd: empty export list should not be treated
 as a failure
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:17:33 -0500
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Harshula wrote:
> In mountd, if get_exportlist() (utils/mountd/mountd.c) returns NULL it
> should not be considered a failure. It just means that there are no
> exports on the system.
> 
> The practical problem with the current code is that a showmount -e
> results in a syslog message from mountd that looks like:
> 
> rpc.mountd: export request from 10.250.100.2 failed.
Committed... thanks!

steved.